Nothing much to say about the professor. She explains the slides in class, with occasional examples, but remains mostly theoretical. She writes too small on the board if you're in the back of the class. Class was hard but only because there were so few questions on the tests. It wasn't that difficult overall. Study well and you'll be in good shape.

During lecture she hardly gives examples, it's very basic, reading off the slides. You're teaching yourself in a way but still make sure to attend all lectures and sit in the front. I took her during summer, we had lecture quizzes every week, 2 midterms and 1 final. No calculators/cheat sheets/or scratch paper during exams

she is one of those professors who doesn't care about you or your grade and there's a reason they had her stop teaching this class almost a decade ago. not sure y she is back but i rlly hope for future econ majors she's gone by next yr again

This class is one of the easiest at UCSB. I had four exams, one of which was dropped.... all other assignments had unlimited attempts which pretty much guarantee 100% for that part of your grade. Study a decent bit and the exams are not too difficult. Only downside was mandatory iClicker questions in lecture.

The exams in this class are tough, but if you put in the work, you'll be fine. The professor is strict on attendance, but the textbook and resources like Unstuck AI can really help with studying. Overall, a challenging but rewarding class.

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

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!

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.

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.