photo credit: Dan Addison
This spring, one University of Virginia class set a goal that many people would envy: to become financially literate enough to be able to critically read and analyze articles in The Economist.
In the process of bringing 35 students closer to that goal, the class’s teachers, fourth-year economics majors Grace Ng and Vadim Elenev, came closer to one day writing articles for the Economist.
As one of U.Va.’s student-initiated courses, Ng and Elenev created, designed and taught a new course, “Anatomy of a Financial Crisis.” The interdisciplinary course’s two-credit pass/fail grading was overseen by faculty sponsor Charlie Holt, an economics professor.
The class had no prerequisites and was geared toward students with no background in economics or finance.
