ECON 450
Master of Quantitative Economics Capstone Project
Tutorial.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 234 records over 6 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for KUNZ, NATHAN ROBERT, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- S 212 of 212
Counts are out of 212 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 | Fall 2026 |
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| WARD, KATRINA D reviews ↗ | S/U | 22 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| KUNZ, NATHAN ROBERT reviews ↗ | S/U | 212 S/U | 5 | - | - | Open, 45 seats left |
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.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 3 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
Tutorial, three hours. Limited to Master of Quantitative Economics students. Semi-independent or directed-study in which students complete their capstone project. Capstone project is final element of Master of Quantitative Economics program, and is intended to help students transition from academic studies to professional world. Includes analysis of quantitative and/or qualitative data, research techniques, and writing strategies. Students submit drafts of project components throughout quarter to adviser. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Tut 80 TR 2:00pm-3:15pmOpenno grade history
45 seats left. 5 of 50 enrolled low risk
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Tut 81 M 5:00pm-6:15pm, W 3:30pm-6:15pmOpen
No instructors
no grade history44 seats left. 6 of 50 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 14 and 35 a term over 6 terms, summer excluded, most recently 14 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 450 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. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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.
Tut 80 · Kunz, N.R. · 5 of 50 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 5.
Tut 81 · No instructors · 6 of 50 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 6.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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.