The authors describe an undergraduate economics elective focused on the Great Recession and the recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. They have taught the course with great success at both liberal arts colleges and research universities and at all levels of the curriculum ranging from a first-year seminar to an upper-level elective. They present a roadmap for instructors interested in offering the class. Although intermediate macroeconomics is assumed as a prerequisite, the authors discuss how they have adapted the class for students with different backgrounds. The course is divided into seven units: the housing bubble and asset pricing, housing policy and history, propagation and panic, monetary policy, fiscal policy, aftermath and international perspectives, and the macroeconomics of COVID-19. Sample assignments and readings are both provided.

Marshall, Emily C., and Paul Shea. Teaching an Undergraduate Elective on the Great Recession (and the COVID-19 Recession Too). The Journal of Economic Education 54, no. 1 (2023): 76-93. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2022.2144575

Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics and Data Analytics at Dickinson College.

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