Hartman is pretty much the definition of mediocre. He gives you the very basics of the topics in his lectures (does not elaborate) and it's up to you to go read the book and watch the TA's do problem sets in order to really understand.

As a class, 10A isn't too bad (as long as you aren't a transfer). If you do a ton of practice tests (and you understand what you're doing) you should be fine. As for Hartman, he's super unenthusiastic in lectures and a lot of the things he says are vague/ unnecessary. I found myself relying much more on the TAs than I did Hartman for help.

Bedard isn't bad for online Econ 1. Lecture content is engaging and decently simple, class is 90% async, but your grade 100% depends on your TA. Beware of ultra-strict project grading that drops your grade and every point counts (only 100 points available for class). Find a friend in the class to work with and you'll be fine.

Winter 20- It is clear what it takes to get an A from the start and if you put in the work it is doable. I felt like I was teaching myself since the lectures are basically repeats of the textbook though. With that said, put in the work (reading/understanding the chapters, CLAS, not procrastinating on projects) and you'll do fine. Good luck

I cant even get myself to watch his lectures, he speaks so monotone and just reads off the slides not explaining anything in depth! Its super frustrating and makes me not want to learn the material . Ive gone to his office hours for questions on old exams and he just rambles on about test taking strategies and doesn't answer the actual question

The worst professor I have ever had. I hope the econ department removes this man because he has no clue how to teach a class. He teaches you nothing, you need to teach yourself virtually everything in this class.

Terrible class. Do not take this class if you don't need to.

The only thing I got out of that class was a crash course on how to excel. Other than that her lectures were not very helpful and her tests were difficult.

Harsh man who cared little about fairness and his students. The course was even worse than before: raise curve for A from 87% (before pandemic) to 93%; set sequential navigation in tests (must finish one question before proceeding to next one); increased toughness of tests, making doing past papers futile. BTW he's not even a professor yet.

Not great at explaining and just breezes through so the class is a self study course basically

I took her Econ 1 online and got 96%. Course contents are not hard, projects are a little bit tricky but I was able to learn a lot of useful excel skills.

You're going to have to teach yourself all the material, however they did change the class set up for COVID and it was a bit easier to obtain a B however the test's are very hard. They do give you old midterms to use to study, but do not rely on the teachers to actually teach you the material. Good luck.

One of the worst professors Ive ever had this past semester. The way he has gone about Corona has been to pre-record everything, hold only ONE 30 minute lecture per week to ask questions. Only about 50% of his teaching is on the tests so try to ace everything else and be prepared to fail those. Class averages for the last 3 tests were Fs.

I had Professor Bedard for Econ1 online and I thought this class would be one of my easier classes since I took AP Economics. However, you do need to take the time to study the material in order to pass. We had projects and your project grades really depend on your TA. All in all, you definitely need to put in the work to get a good grade.

COVID, online. What are you expecting? This is your first major class for Econ/E&A. Actually watch the lectures, do the practice tests, and review, you are gonna be fine. 4 tests and 4 projects, both drop the lowest. A is not too easy but completely doable. Professor Bedards lecture and slides are super easy to understand and not too boring.

The exams and homework were relatively simple, but the real headache were the group projects. The instructions for the group projects were not specific, and the professor and TAs didn't do a good job answering questions students had. I would definitely not take this class again.

Gave boring lectures that provided surface level knowledge of concepts. Did not teach much beyond that. Best way to pass this class is do all the practice exams and problem sets. Maybe he would have been better in person, but he was a dull professor online.

Bedard is the head of the econ department so she likes to play everything by the book. Very clear from day 1 what it takes to get an A. Tests are pretty easy if you watch the lectures. Projects are the worst thing I have ever done. The TAs grade the projects so harshly. MAKE SURE TO CONNECT YOUR PROJECTS TO CLASS MATERIAL. TAs are horrible!!

She is not accessible at all for office hours. I emailed her for an appointment, but she said just to come to online office hours, but she never showed up. The tests were open notes, so the wording was made confusing and misleading. I wish the test would have been fill in the blank. The material was easy but the questions were phrased to confuse.

She gives pretty good lectures and is an organized professor and the work for the most part is pretty moderate. Exams are pretty okay though the projects can be a really challenge not because they're complex but merely because the directions can be vague. Overall a decent class and the grading is pretty fair.

HW is twice a week and tests are not so bad if you watch lectures and do the work! Definitely doable, tho there are 4 projects to do and these can be time consuming and annoying too but for the most part it's expected. all lectures were pre-recorded so that was very convenient! Recommend if you want to get this class over with for your major fast.

Terrible. Definitely worst lecturer I met in UCSB. And he's not willing to help cause he don't care about the students.

Unhelpful. DON'T take his class!!!

He teaches nothing and expects students to know everything.