Teaching

Courses Taught at Williams College

Price and Allocation Theory, EC 251.

Fall 2024: In Person.

Games and Information, EC 385.

Fall 2024: In Person.

Principles of Microeconomics, EC 110.

Spring 2025 (2 sections): In Person.

Independently Taught Courses at UO

Introduction to Game Theory, EC 327.

Fall 2020: Synchronous Online. View Course Evaluations.
Winter 2022: Hybrid In-Person and Synchronous Online. View Course Evaluations.

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"This class wasn't what I expected (my fault) and I switched it to pass/fail pretty early on, which wasn't great for my motivation to do well. I'm an Econ minor but I really don't like Econ. However, Ethan formatted the course so that I really had no choice but to stay engaged on some level. As hard as I tried to really get through this class without learning anything, I actually learned a decent bit about game theory. Not sure if a bigger compliment can be given to a teacher than that. I hope Ethan gets the opportunity to continue teaching courses."

"Ethan clearly cares about his students and really wants them to learn the course material. He was very helpful in office hours and made this class a really great experience."

"I really appreciated this econ class. I was intimidated to take it at first, but it was the only one that fit in my schedule. I have really struggled in all my other economics courses, but this is the first one where I understand a good portion of the material and feel comfortable doing the work in the class."

• Check out Shiny Game Theory, A work in progress made to help my students study! Along with my other teaching content it is something I continually add content to.

Games and Decisions, EC 427/527.

Summer 2021: Synchronous Online, 427 Only. View Course Evaluations.
Summer 2022: Synchronous Online, Available at the undergraduate level (427) or masters level (527). View Course Evaluations.

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"I thought the lay out, requirements and instruction in this course was excellent. I thought Ethan's instruction was very clear and thorough. He was also very accessible and did everything he could to ensure we had what we needed to succeed in the course."

Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, EC 311.

Spring 2022: In Person. View Course Evaluations.

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"Ethan Holdahl has done a phenomenal job both relaying course materials and information to us as well as creating systems and resources for us to access and learn with outside of the classroom. Ethan has been incredibly approachable all term and has put our learning as his students first in all circumstances, building time into class to verify that we understood course content, dedicating personal time and weekends to creating supplemental resources, applying in class strategies to ensure content retention, and so much more. Despite the question asking for us to avoid comments about our instructor, I feel like Ethan's hard work and dedication deserves to be recognized."

"Mr. Holdahl has given everyone in the class lots of support, and continues to constantly go out of his way to make sure that everyone is able to understand and learn the best possible. I have had a lot of moments of confusion, and he is very patient and understanding, and will help until I fully understand a concept!"

• Check out Shiny Micro, A site containing my lecture notes alongside interactive content. This site is a work in progress and is being developed with the goals in mind:

• Help students understand concepts by placing lecture notes side by side with manipulable graphs of the topics.

• Help students study by creating randomly generating questions with fields for students to input and check their answers. I also include a button to reveal step by step solutions to these randomly generated questions.

• Help instructors like myself quickly make beautiful graphs of topics covered in Intermediate Micro.

"Ethan has gone above and beyond what was required of him and made his own website, seemingly from scratch, to host notes and simulated practice questions for us to access and supplement our learning with."

"The website created by the instructor was extremely useful and helped on both exams."

Resource and Environmental Economic Issues, EC 333.

Fall 2022: In Person.

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Teaching Assistant Appointments at UO

Contemporary Economic Issues, EC 101.

Fall 2019: In Person. View Course Evaluations.

Introduction to Economic Analysis: Microeconomics, EC 201, EC 201.

Winter 2020: In Person. View Course Evaluations.

Introduction to Economic Analysis: Macroeconomics, EC 202, EC 202.

Winter 2020: In Person. View Course Evaluations.

Awards

Department of Economics Graduate Teaching Award 2022

Awarded annually to 2-3 graduate students for "outstandingly high quality teaching provided to the economics department".