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?

He used to be a nice guy, but apparently changed his teaching style. Do not really like him. He is not interested in the success of his students, which is a shame for a prf

Best teacher I've had at UCSB. I'm a Buis-Econ major with an accounting emphasis and Harmon taught me everything so well and prepared me for future classes. He is very smart, funny, and entertaining. He wants his students to succeed. TAKE HIS CLASS and I promise you will love it.

It was an okay class. Interesting accounting topics that are useful for the CPA exam and for careers in accounting, but the teaching style was not great. We seemed to be moving too slow and was left to teach ourselves a majority of the topics. Multiple choice are tricky and the government accounting topic could have been taught a lot better.

Harmon is a pretty good professor. If you go to class and pay attention the hw isn't too hard, sometimes I felt like the multiple choice questions on his tests were a little random but overall he is a fair teacher. He's also helpful at explaining things if you talk to him after class.

His office hours are not very helpful. He may seem to try really hard to teach the material in class but doesn't care about his students much. Overall an ordinary instructor.

HORRIBLE teacher. He has no regard for the success of his students. His help is next to nothing and his lectures can best be described as ramblings. Avoid him like the plague.