Super easy class until the impossible final that's worth 35% of your grade. If it's Hartman do not take

I got an A in this class because I taught myself EVERYTHING. The professor is lazy and uploads video lectures that are just him reading through the slides. The content is not hard but the class structure makes it hard. Do the practice tests and ask ChatGPT to explain things because the professor won't.

Awful professor that teaches in a completely asynchronous manner, at least for my class. No feedback at all throughout the course and you teach yourself the content.

Econ 5 is not a hard class. Prof Hartman makes it hard. I feel bad for anyone taking this course as mostly every negative review is true. Lectures from 2020, the final is crazy hard, and you're required to do activities once a week with a group. Don't expect to learn anything though, everyone (including TA's) use ChatGPT. Terrible class.

This class is horribly taught. easy statistics, but it is extremely difficult to get a grasp on the material. all online lectures, one mandatory section a week. this class was overall so confusing and the final was one of the hardest tests I have taken at UCSB. just self-study a lot and have Chat explain practice problems.

By far the worst professor I've ever had at UCSB, I wish I could give him a 0/5. Super lazy, super condescending to students. The content itself isn't too bad it's just taught so poorly. My advice to do well, don't buy the textbook, don't watch the lecture vids, just memorize the slides and do every practice exam multiple times.

Lousy course setup. At the beginning of the quarter he'll give a speech about how they've switched the class format to help students learn better, but then the majority of the class is just watching pre-recorded lectures from covid. It's somewhat insulting how little effort is put into teaching students in this class.

Hartman's class is challenging but manageable with practice. The exams are similar to past papers, so using resources like Unstuckstudy and the free textbook can really help with preparation. Attend lectures and office hours to stay on top of the material.

Solid professor, better than majority of econ department. Attend lecture, do the iclickers, and review previous exams to study.

He isn't as bad as people say he is. His lectures are decent and the exams are very similar to past exams. So as long as you stay on task and practice throughout the entire quarter you will be fine.

I thought Bedard was a great professor! Yes, the exams are difficult, esp if you put minimal time in studying, which a lot of my friends did, but if you take this major class srsly you'll be fine! Bedard drops ur lowest test score (very generous imo) so I didn't have to take the final to get an A. HW was simple & she answered Qs I had about topics!

Hartman's exams are extremely similar to prior final exams (which he gives out). Good professor given how rigorous + fast paced ECON10A is. He sends out Canvas announcements, reminding students about going to OH, Section, and getting help in general. He also offers regrade requests and wanted all of us to succeed (while also putting in the work).

Hartman honestly isnt that bad, he just teaches a hard class and talks with a boring voice sometimes. The practice tests are exactly like the tests. Lectures are helpful if you are lost in the class but they aren't really essential to succeed in this class. If you are decent at calc then youll be fine.

the class itself was not terrible, you just have to self teach and do all the past exams, but he was no help at all. he is an unfair grader and spends most of his time talking about how hard the class is and only reads off lecture slides

She made all lectures mandatory with iclicker quiz questions, but I do not mind this at all. I thought the tests were easy for the most part, there were a couple questions here and there that were poorly worded or confusing, but overall good.

I had a good experience w/ Hartman. I love how he provides >60 PAST exams for you to practice (they're EXTREMELY similar to his exams). His test questions were VERY PREDICTABLE & REASONABLE. He also encourages you to study early & is accessible after lectures. The lectures are dense b/c of amount of course content. TAs & CLAS were VERY helpful too.

I had Harman for Econ 2 and Econ 10A. He reads off the slides and is a boring lecturer. I never understood a single thing he said. I self taught myself the entirety of both courses. For Econ 2, read the textbook as it will cover everything if not more that Hartman touches upon. For Econ 10A, do all of the past exams and you're good.

This professor makes the exam questions completely different than the practice exams.She also makes the exam so difficult for no reason at all.The wordings can be so confusing that you waste time figuring out what the question is asking, by the time you understand the question, you don't have enough time to do the calculations or check ur answers.

Kelly Bedard may be knowledgeable about economics, but she is terrible at teaching. Not only did I have to re-learn all the topics, I would spend 10+ hours studying for her tests, only to see questions that were completely unrelated to the course material. There was nothing I could do to prepare for the questions, they were so off-topic/confusing.

She wasn't a good professor. Taught us one thing then the tests were 10 times harder and most of the time there wasn't much you could do to prepare for it. The class is simple but she makes it hard. Not fun I wouldn't recommend taking Econ 2 with her.

Goes over slides so fast, exams are extremely difficult, practice exams do not help, and cares way too much about IClicker.

Her lectures and her slides are the same thing, she adds nothing extra to what is already on the slideshow. Also, half of her tests were the most confusing thing ever, you will spend more time trying to figure out what the question even means, rather than trying to solve the question. Be on time in class, or else you won't receive attendance points

The exam are x100 harder than what she teaches in class! She will explain the basic of the basic in lecture and will ask the hardest and trickiest questions on the exams.Also, the weekly Data Assignment for some reason is impossible even though you can take as many attempts as you want, and is also totally different from what she teaches in class

Wording of the test confuses me a lot as an international student. I am sad