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ECON 102

Macroeconomic Theory

4 units

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 14 hours ago.

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Grades

3.09

Average grade awarded in ECON 102. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

40%

of the 4,139 letter grades

D, F or W

5.1%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

<1%

4 of 9 students passed

The registrar's own records: 4,139 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.82 to 3.73.

Historical grades for SURRO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 156 · 9.1%
  • A 243 · 14.3%
  • A- 262 · 15.4%
  • B+ 221 · 13.0%
  • B 223 · 13.1%
  • B- 155 · 9.1%
  • C+ 98 · 5.7%
  • C 157 · 9.2%
  • C- 68 · 4.0%
  • D+ 39 · 2.3%
  • D 37 · 2.2%
  • D- 22 · 1.3%
  • F 24 · 1.4%
  • P 1 of 1,715
  • NP 2 of 1,715
  • U 1 of 1,715
  • I 6 of 1,715

Percentages are of the 1,705 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), unsatisfactory (U), and incompletes (I).

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
SURRO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN reviews ↗ 3.02 3.01 1,705 6 39% - Open, 13 seats left
BIGIO LUKS, MATTHEW SAKI reviews ↗ 3.34 3.34 877 4 53% heavy not teaching it
MCDEVITT, EDWARD P reviews ↗ 3.03 3.03 724 5 34% light not teaching it
TEODORO GUERREIRO, JOAO PEDRO reviews ↗ 3.00 3.00 653 2 34% - not teaching it
URBINA RODRIGUEZ, ROBERT PABLO reviews ↗ 3.36 3.39 219 1 47% - not teaching it
BAQAEE, DAVID REZZA reviews ↗ 3.23 3.24 125 1 42% light not teaching it
LEEPIPATPIBOON, PAT reviews ↗ 3.00 2.95 33 1 33% - not teaching it
MOSQUERA, JOSE SANTIAGO reviews ↗ 2.86 2.74 32 1 25% - not teaching it
BATISTA, JULIAN A reviews ↗ 3.07 3.06 22 1 36% - 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.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for ECON 102

Workload and assignments

Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.

No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 224 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before ECON 102. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 2, 101. Theory of income, employment, and price level. Analysis of secular growth and business fluctuations; introduction to monetary and fiscal policy. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

  • Lec 1

    MW 2:00pm-3:15pm

    Open

    13 seats left in discussions.

    Lecture: 323 of 355 enrolled

    Surro, C.J.

    3.02

    Predicted GPA

    Historical records for SURRO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN; 1,705 letter grades
    medium risk
    10 discussions, 2 open: Dis 1N, F 9:00am-9:50am, and Dis 1P, M 10:00am-10:50am.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 10 discussions
    • Dis 1A

      M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3178

      Waitlist

      0 of 2 places taken.

      24 of 24 enrolled

    • Dis 1B

      T 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160

      Closed

      35 of 35 · 4 over enrolled

    • Dis 1D

      R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3164

      Closed

      35 of 35 · 3 over enrolled

    • Dis 1G

      W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160

      Closed

      35 of 35 enrolled

    • Dis 1H

      M 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3178

      Closed

      35 of 35 enrolled

    • Dis 1I

      F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall A25

      Closed

      35 of 35 · 1 over enrolled

    • Dis 1M

      M 4:00pm-4:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2238

      Closed

      35 of 35 · 1 over enrolled

    • Dis 1N

      F 9:00am-9:50am · Bunche Hall 3211

      Open

      12 seats left.

      21 of 33 enrolled

    • Dis 1O

      W 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building 1337

      Closed

      35 of 35 · 1 over enrolled

    • Dis 1P

      M 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building 2238

      Open

      1 seat left.

      23 of 24 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 127 and 366 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 342 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking ECON 102 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Surro, C.J. · 323 of 355 enrolled

Nothing read since 16 Oct, 11 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 11.

323 of 355 · 13 left in its discussions
17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 16:2916 Oct 17:52 · 11 hours ago
Checked 168 of the 594 hours with hourly history, 28%. No reading was recorded in 426 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 22 Sep, which is the other 849 of 1443 plotted.323 of 355 enrolled at the newest reading, 11 hours ago, with 13 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 16 Oct 17:52, 312 to 323. Checks are not continuous monitoring. Changes between checks may be missed.
How readings and alerts work

Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.