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ECON 3324

Money and Financial Markets · 1 instructor on record · 10 sections

What the course score is made of

73BC evaluations10 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

69thMore challenging than 69% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

93BC — “Intellectually Challenging”10 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “Workload”10 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course covers topics such as the significance and multiple functions of money in the economy, the behavior of interest rates, the banking system, financial markets, and the management of financial institutions. This course further covers the Federal Reserve System and the conduct of monetary policy, different asset classes, the foreign exchange market, and the international financial system. There is a heavy emphasis on use of market data and the analysis of economic releases--earnings reports, government policy statements, etc.--to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject. Moreover, through an extensive use of Bloomberg in this class students learn how to access and analyze data and economic releases to provide a window into how modern practitioners in the discipline analyze financial markets. Prerequisites: macro theory and econometrics

The only instructor on record

10 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Hossein KazemiAdjunct Professor · Economics	7410 records	78th	69th	404 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Hossein Kazemi is the only instructor with evaluation records for ECON 3324, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Hossein Kazemi

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ECON 2246Impact of News on Financial Markets	18 records	70
ECON 3361Monetary Theory and Policy	24 records	79
ADEC 7390Empirical Money and Banking	12 records	51

Other ECON classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ECON 1101Principles of Economics	46223 records	73
ECON 2228Econometric Methods	33131 records	71
ECON 1151Statistics	2797 records	72
ECON 2202Macroeconomic Theory	2072 records	69
ECON 2201Microeconomic Theory	1967 records	71
ECON 9900Third Year Thesis Workshop	1440 records	91

The line

All 13 items · means across 10 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

8511th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

803rd pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

839th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

8612th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

692nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

722nd pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

8925th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

795th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

757th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

722nd pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9369th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9466th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

10 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Hossein Kazemi	Spring 2026	01	73	73	80
Hossein Kazemi	Fall 2025	01	84	84	40
Hossein Kazemi	Spring 2025	01	70	73	60
Hossein Kazemi	Fall 2024	01	66	71	60
Hossein Kazemi	Spring 2024	01	76	73	60
Hossein Kazemi	Fall 2023	01	73	65	—
Hossein Kazemi	Spring 2023	01	76	73	60
Hossein Kazemi	Fall 2022	01	70	68	—
Hossein Kazemi	Spring 2022	01	73	77	60
Hossein Kazemi	Fall 2021	01	76	72	60

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.