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.

You will have to teach yourself the test material, because you certainly will not learn it from him.

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.