Benelli is one of the best econ professor that I've had in UCSB. She is really nice and helpful. Her test is not hard as long as you attend lecture and take good notes. just pay really close attention in class and you will do fine.
don't take her unless you feel like torturing yourself for a quarter. she is nice, but provides little to NO examples on problems you need to do for hw and tests. i've also never seen an econ teacher with such poor understanding of rudimentary math. this class sucked
Very nice and extremely happy. A little bit confusing, notes scattered and unorganized, but overall not too difficult.
She really needs to put her notes online!! It's so frustrating to try and write everything so quickly just from what she says. You have 2 homeworks, midterm, and final.
She seems nice and cool in the beginning, but she doesn't put her notes online, so you're scrambling during class to get everything down, and she doesn't have the best notes. She's extremely unhelpful during office hours, talks to you in a kind of condescending way and doesn't help at all.
I really loved this class and Stuart. He is extremely knowledgeable and I thought very helpful. I attended every class and never even bought the book and got an A. Make sure you really know his notes, don't just write down what he does because it can be confusing when you go back to it. Definitely would recommend this class.
Excellent and fun teacher. very smart but not cocky like other teachers in the same department. Tricky tests and very hard if u dont go to lecture. Class is easy and teacher is very helpful during office hours.
She's awesome and her tests are pretty easy except for her essay questions. And if you ask her about the essay she just dances around the topic because she wants you to figure it out on your own but even with that said, her class is not too hard and I recommend her!
Just like all the review say, you get graded on your writing, not on your answer. One of the worst teachers I've ever had.
This guy's lectures are incredibly disorganized. I don't know why economists can't teach. He is very picky about wording on tests, even when you get the answer right. Avoid at all costs!
beware: stuart is an incredibly unfair grader. very picky on answers and will not budge. doesn't matter if you know the concept bc if you use the "wrong" words, he will still fail you. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!
A very picky and harsh grader. Teaching quarlity is not very good either.
do NOT take this class!! he is extremely picky about your answers and even if you go into office hours every week you can still get a C in the class. He grades incredibly unfair even if you know the right answer.
Do not take!! Terrible professor. Thinks he is the greatest writer in the world. Rips you apart on the tests because the answers aren't worded how he wants it. Very unclear about what he wants on the test in terms of wording. Puts more weight on the actual writing than if you understand the concepts! And boring..... Take for an easy C class
Don't buy the book for this class because he makes up scenarios for his questions that the book doesnt go over. He gives you a list of 50 potential questions that will be on the midterm and final. He only selected 3 for each exam. It seems easy but even if you spit out exactly what he said in class he will still rip on your answer. oh and btw...zzz