Really great professor. He's funny and enthusiastic about teaching. His tests are fair and lets you know what's going to be one them beforehand. Wileyplus hw due every lecture are easy points as well as the weekly assignments for section.

Always went to his office hours and they were really helpful. Multiple choice on the tests were pretty difficult. Final had a lot of material that was unexpected. Overall, helpful and nice... easy B

He is a good teacher, although he can be slow on going over the material. Easy class if you focus thoroughly on what he expects you to know. Read wiley more than once and you can easily grasp everything. His honors section is an easy A and it's nothing relating to accounting - all about personal finance and life lessons. Quite interesting too.

Have had various classes with Harmon. Not the easiest teacher, but not overly difficult. If you study an average amount you will do decent. He is a funny, goofy dude and a genuine nice guy. Will help with all your CPA career advice. GOOD

All he does in class is read off slides which isn't effective in teaching a class on accounting. Midterm was difficult. Don't recommend, but problem is he's the only professor that teaches 3b.

It's very simple: If becoming a CPA is not your ulitmate goal, then don't take this class. Those of you who want to become CPAs and have complained about this class need to suck it up. If you want professors to hold your hand throughout your entire college career consider switching into comm or soc because this is not the place for you.

midterms and final are difficult. uses wileyplus too excessively but that's most econ professors

I like Harmon as a person (and for Econ 3b) but for 139, he kinda sucked. He was unorganized, used a book that was full of incorrect information, inconsiderate in posting assignments in a timely fashion, and grading didn't seem to reflect the work contributed or knowledge gained. There are 2 midterms that were hard and had too much for the time all

The homework he gave was ridiculous. He made us do the homework even before we had the class!!That also counts into your final grade.First mid term questions were really difficult addition with short time. Second mid term we been told the format is multiple choice on the day of exam.He was confirmed before that there would be work sheet questions!

Like he said the first day, he's the older version of Anderson. People saying its hard are simply people who barely studied. If you learn the content of the slides by heart and do all the practice exercise he gives us on wiley plus, there is no way in hell you can get a grade lower than B. All it takes is practice.

Coby!!!!!!! Midterms kind of hard but fair... good guy though pretty funny

I took econ 139 last spring. I got an A in the class but had to work really hard. We had just moved to a new textbook and as such the homework was a bit chaotic and some of the answers were incorrect in the solutions he showed us during class. The first midterm is difficult, the second not so bad. The Finals are VERY difficult. We could take home.

If you are in the econ department it's impossible to avoid Harmon. Don't worry too much, but it's difficult to get an A because he doesn't make it clear what the tests are going to cover. Know everything he mentions in class, even if he only mentions it briefly. No midterm or final review guides. Wiley Plus homework much harder than in 3A.

One of UCSB's best. Great speaker easier to understand. Also, has a ton of patience with his students. Excellent story teller too.

by far the BEST teacher at UCSB!very enthusiastic about teaching and helping students learn. the only reason why ppl r complaining is cuz they probably didnt study and only memorized. his exams test concepts n understanding NOT memorization. LOVED THIS CLASS AND LOVE HIM! give alot of extra credit. fun n interesting class. recommend it

Funny and awesome

Straightforward class. Slides cover most everything but reading the chapters will cinch an A. Just study the online homeworks and slides well and you'll be fine for the exams.

Harmon just reads off the slides. There isn't really a point to going to class because he doesn't talk about anything in detail and the slides are online. If you read the book and do the homework, you should do fine in the class. The only point to going to lecture is that he will give extra credit occasionally.

horrible prof. reads his slides which you can get online and completely overuses whiley plus. a lot of people say he's really nice, but they're brown nosers. he designs his test so that you fail. will go over a subject briefly and ask two ridiculously hard questions about it on the midterm

Harmon is extremely helpful and clear about course material. Very patient with students and make sure they understand what is going on. Good, helpful lectures. Easy and interesting honors section. Nice guy, I would recommend him.

Fantastic professor. I have taken him for nearly all my accounting classes and enjoyed everyone. Yes tests can be difficult but most of the topics he teaches are difficult. Others say he doesn't care about our success but he actually does. He just doesn't hold your hand the whole time.

Teaching style pretty much identical to Anderson. Nice guy, good teacher. Was very clear and open to questions. Explained things thoroughly until students understood. Very willing to go over tests and homework. i would recommend him

Teaches well and explains concepts in a clear fashion. Similar style to Anderson. Overall hes a great professor and he can make frog noises. What more is there to say?

i saw some of my classmates rating coby,lol. let me take it further. coby WAS a nice guy when he was teaching 136b, but not seem to be so in 139. he relied too much on the wiley ppt show, what he did every cls was to give the answer he get from the solution manual+showing the ppt from the publisher. we can do all this at home, cant we?