Teaching Scholars for 2000-2001

Alison Butler

Biography
Dr. Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, who has taught courses dealing with the Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money, Credit and Banking, International Macroeconomics for undergraduate, as well as Graduate Macroeconomics for  masters and Ph.D students.  She has been serving as a Visiting Scholar for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.  Her interests include Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, International Macroeconomics, as well as Technology and Growth.

Teaching Project
Dr. Butler's plans for the Teaching Scholar's Program will primarily be to create a more comprehensive revision to the curriculum in her principles of macroeconomics class.  First, she would like to narrow the set of key concepts that will be learned and create a set of readings and questions to help students learn and apply these concepts in different situations.  Studies suggest that the principles of economic classes are more geared to prospective economic students than the wider set of students that are enrolled in the class.  Second, she would like to find new ways of integrating more active learning concepts, particularly ones that can be used in large classes.

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