Teaching

I have extensive higher-education teaching experience across both Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Economics, in both in-person and remote modalities. For my role as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), I have been awarded the Milam-McGinty-Kaun Award for Excellence in Teaching (Social Sciences Division, UC Santa Cruz). For my role as a Teaching Assistant (TA), I have been awarded the TA Quarterly Award (Economics Department, UC Santa Cruz).

As an Instructor, I have taught Programming in R for Applied Economics to M.S. Applied Economics and Finance (APEF) students at UCSC in Winter 2023 and 2024.

As a TA, I have taught a variety of both graduate-level and under-graduate courses:

Finance (M.S. APEF, UCSC) [Fall 2021; Fall 2022]
Macroeconomics (M.S. APEF, UCSC) [Winter 2022]
Capstone Preparation (M.S. APEF, UCSC) [Spring 2024]
International Financial Management [Spring 2021; Spring 2022]
Personal Finance [Summer 2020; Summer 2021]
Introductory Econometrics [Fall 2020]
Introductory Macroeconomics [Winter 2020]
Introductory Microeconomics [Summer 2024]

Selected Teaching Feedback

"Bhavyaa is just in all incredibly engaging and everything about the structure of her course represented that. She was constantly communicating with us to make sure that we understood the concepts. Homework was just difficult enough to make us feel challenged without feeling overwhelmed and lost. It was also very helpful having her lecture recordings posted online as that helped me to go back and review material where I did not take the best notes."
"Bhavyaa consistently went above and behind to help students struggling in this course. She went over time in office hours and sections, gave extra review sections, and was very good at going at the pace that matched each students' need. She would even spend time in sections to call on people to check in on them to make sure they understood. The best TA I have had throughout my college career."
"She was awesome. It was obvious that she was clearly an expert at the material and when she helped dissect the problem sets, she did so in such an organized manner that also made it simple to learn the material. She has a wealth of knowledge.