Class was taught by many teachers and they all recorded videos to watch 3 times a week followed by a quiz. Mandatory once a week meeting. This class is easy to pass but not easy to do well. Hartman is terrible had him for 10A at the same time he put the finals on the same day on Saturday! You have to teach yourself how to do everything.

Tests are the only thing that really matters at 45% of your grade. Lecture is worthless you need to do your own research on the topics and DO THE OLD EXAMS!!! He provides many of them and if you do them all you learn how to do the exams! Dont ever miss hw or quiz at the end it gets down to having 100% in everything then C average on test to get B

The class is straightforward. Tests are open book. If you watch the lectures, complete the projects, and do the assignments, I don't see how you don't do well. I genuinely enjoyed her lectures and felt that she did a great job of connecting content to practical, real life examples.

Keep up with lectures, do the practice questions, and don't procrastinate on projects. Not a hard A.

He is unworthy of being a professor. He should educate himself first. Every time you ask him a question, he just throws something else at you. Cold-blooded and doesn't care about students.

Firstly, the professor is not good at teaching. He does not explain each concept fully with relevant clearances and examples. TAs are nice. The tests are completed unrelated to past exams so you have to study the materials on your own. As a person who enjoys learning economics, I can say the design of this course completely ruined my experience.

He doesnt go over problems or how to do them. The lectures are not closely related to the test questions.

10A is a disrespectful weeder class. The exams are artificially difficult. The actually material is easy to grasp and to apply but when lecturer John tests you on things that are no covered it makes it almost impossible to get a good grade in the class. The average grade is below a C. So if you get an average grade you will fail the class.

Very good professor, you will succeed if you work hard.

Have no idea why she designed the course that way. Lecture is simply repeating the videos on GS, no different from the online course. Don't know why everything is done on a paid textbook. The most stupid thing is that we cannot return to the previous question in the exam (you CANNOT CHANGE THE ANSWER AFTER YOU REALIZE YOU'RE WRONG)! Bad experience.

Honestly the worst instructor I've had in my entire life. Restates the book in lecture but somehow makes the book seem even more unclear. Does not teach how to do any of the problems that will appear on the midterms. If TA Sarah was not in charge of the problem sets I would have failed the class along with many more students who I'm sure agree. Sad

All in all this class is pretty easy to do good in. The whole class revolves around different applications of Cobb Douglas, quasi-linear, perfect substitute, and perfect complement utility functions. The teacher does not teach the material enough, but it's to be expected, this is the econ gatekeeper class, youtube is your best friend here.

Hartman, 10A, the gatekeeper of ECON major. This is a weeder class, what are you expecting. Prof Hartman is very accessible and you can find him easily in his office hours, but the lecture is just really boring (both recorded and live). I also did not find the live lecture useful. Syllabus is quite generous (lowest drop). If you try you can make it

It's the well-known gatekeeper 10A so be prepared. It is a hard class but with Prof Hartman's grading system, as long as you are not a transfer, it should not be too hard to be admitted into the major. Pay attention to all lectures and go to TA sections (tbh sections are very helpful) and you will be able to get enough grade for the major.

Prof. Bedard's lectures are so interesting, and she is really nice to the students. This is an easy class but it really depends on your TA. My friend got a harsh grader gave him low project grade, my TA grades fairly. Overall, as long as you put in effort, you can get an A!

The overall course content of the class was not difficult and easy to understand with the lectures, but the projects are what will take away from your grade.

DON'T TAKE THIS PROFESSOR! No seriously, you rather skip a quarter and take it with someone else. Lectures are so useless. Gives an example but doesn't fully go over them. He will say "this is up for the students to calculate and figure out" then honestly what is the point of him? Exams were not similar to past exam so studying those didn't help.

Terrible professor. In my four years at UCSB, he is by far the worst professor I have ever taken. You learn absolutely nothing from his lectures. The tests and lectures feel like completely different material. You need to teach yourself or learn from Sarah, the best TA there is.

If the TA Sarah becomes the instructor of 10A, the average score will at least go up by 10%.

Prof basically reads off the slides and doesn't elaborate. But the TAs are amazing. Don't buy the textbook, there's a pdf online and it's not helpful anyways.

had not had one bad experience with a single professor until i took his class, he does not make any effort to help students or explain any material and a week before vaccines were available to the public he sent out an email warning students that sickness from the vaccine was not an excuse for an extention/to do poorly

This class was super straightforward. The syllabus explains exactly what the class will be and her lectures line up well with test content. She is amazing and I wish I had her again because she is the gem of the Econ department

Professor Hartman is not helpful at all. I took Econ 10A with him and I am taking Econ 134A. You need to do all of his previous tests to pass these classes. Don't rely on his lectures because they are useless. You basically need to teach yourself.

Prof Bedard was great at delivering the curriculum. Lectures were easy to follow and the textbook was helpful for practice problems. No curveballs on exams, with only a few exceptions, simple homework assignments, but projects were a bit difficult depending on your TA. Not an easy class, but totally doable if you put in the work.