Absolutely horrible class. Professor lacked any sort of structure in class. No clear grading scale. Would never take a class with this professor ever again.
Kind and patient
Lectures are boring and bland. I was excited to take game theory and this class was quite a disappointment. Exams weren't terribly difficult, but I had to teach myself most of the material from the book.
lectures, including midterm/final reviews were completely useless for tests. Lecturing style was very boring and least helpful.
He doesn't do a good job of teaching the material and at times makes it more confusing. I had to teach myself for the most part and often found the book more helpful than the lecture notes. He provides practice questions, but his test questions are much much harder than the practice questions and there are unexpected intuition questions
I went into office hours with my friend asking him some concepts that we had a hard time understanding and he got so impatient with us, he started yelling and screaming (literally). We got so scared my friend almost cried and I made up a lie to get out of there. He is the WORST i've ever had.
Good professor. He was helpful in office hours and his exams never had anything unexpected. He was fair and would make random jokes in class. Very intelligent individual!
He goes through the material quickly yet is still very thorough with great examples. If you can handle the fast pace he is a great teacher and you will learn a lot.
In fairness, the low scores that professor Qin has received on this site seem to be from students in the Econ 100 series who (no offense) are likely accounting students with less-vested math interests than the largely Finance-minded students in the 104 series. Considering the profs who teach Micro in Econ 1, Qin is much more helpful by comparison.
Lectures do more harm than good. Ignore him and go to CLAS.
Once I got used to his accent I really enjoyed the class. I goes over the problems logically. If you are good at math you should do well. some review of calculus might be helpful. All in all good teacher.
I was extremely fortunate to get Professor Qin for Econ 104A and B. His lectures are well prepared and understandable. At UCSB you could do a lot worse!
DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. Take it with anybody else. His tests try to TRICK you and go more in depth than what you learn. He's a nice PERSON but beware if you want to keep your gpa.
Midterms and Final can be very tricky. However, I got below average on both midterms and I got a 17/20 on the final so I ended up with a A-. You must do the workbook probs and go to C.L.A.S for help. I studied for 11 hours strait for the final so this class takes dedication. This is the hardest ECON class so once you get through it your fine.
I had to post because I saw all these other people saying bad stuff about him. Qin is awesome. He was one of the nicest and most understanding teachers I've had. The class wasn't too bad either--he is clear in class and office hours. Anyway I think this guy is great.
hard class. lectures were pointless and boring. midterms arent that bad but final had questions that we never learned
Why does nobody goes to his class? 1.) He goes over the stuff you can get online. 2.) He doesn't show examples. 3.) TA's do all of the work 4.) You will get even more confused from his lectures. Finally, his tests are not that hard like everyone says but why take an online structure class like the University of Phoenix?
Make sure you read the book and study his lecture notes. Questions can be tricky. Had an easy midterm but final was a little more challenging. SO STUDY HARD!!! But over all fair teacher.
always expect some totally novel questions on his test. and that's where the risk lies. they usually take one to two steps to solve, but if you miss them (which is not unlikely because you never saw such questions before), you at most get a b+ for every test.
Pretends that he loves to help students, but if you do go to him, he does not answer your questions directly and not helpful at all. He does make the class harder than it has to be.
Not a good teacher period. Lectures were pointless to attend. Made 100B harder than it had to be.
He's extrem hard, so dont take his class
Difficult professor, he knows what he's talking about but he makes up his own questions, so reviewing previous exams does not really help for his tests. You never really know how you do on the test until afterwards when it is compared to other students. (average grade for second exam was 36/75)
This guy is horrible. Please don't take him for summer session.
