Rest in Peace, Professor Babcock... taught classes despite battling cancer... A genius and endlessly kind. The world has lost a wonderful person and educator!
Work hard if you want a good grade in the class. This professor is the bomb. Awesome class. It's a lot of work, but I enjoyed it. Work hard, and you will succeed!
Textbook and workbook useless, don't waste money. Everything is based on the slides. That said his slides are your textbook. the slides are good, there only enough room for the bare essentials so some important info is missing. His problem sets don't come with answers. This and the slides make the class unnecessarily hard.
Best professor I had for economics, explains clearly but materials are hard! Work hard if you want a good grade!
He is the best teacher/professor that I've ever had. He completely changed my study style as I moved from pure memorizing to trying to understand the concepts. Going to his OH, TAs don't help much since most of them are unprepared.
Babcock is an extremely good teacher and is interesting as well. Class is VERY hard as Transfers need a B in it. Don't slouch off...go to multiple sections and Office Hours.Sara Adler and Martin Some are great TA's in the class. Go to all lectures. Re do the problem sets multiple times. Think of things that he hasn't asked you yet to study.
Print slides before class. go to every section and OH for RUTH-the ONLY TA who is reliable and goes above and beyond for students. Other TA's are unprepared and disinterested even though they get free tuition. Babcock's OH is the most helpful, but get there early!!! Get a tutor for the qtr, not just the week before exams. Avg/B- for exams appx 70%
great professor, hard subject
really tough material b/c it is the last pre-req. I suggest finding someone who has taken it before - you actually have to understand why you're solving certain problems the way you are, not just memorizing! he's a great professor, rushes through slides sometimes, but lectures are definitely worth it since he doesn't really use the book much
hes alright. this class is super hard because its the last pre-req class for econ and alot of transfer students have to pass this with a B. go to his office hours, thats where you learn most of the stuff. you have to know what your doing vs just memorizing. do problem sets. final is what really matters as it pretty much sets the curve. good luck.
The non-mandatory problem sets are very similar to the exams. Optional section were you get the answers to problem sets. Focus on the concepts not the methodology of the problem. Tests are deceptively easy with a single hard one.
Material is very difficult, but Babcock explains it well. He's a really good professor. I liked him a lot. He sometimes threw in trick questions on his tests. He wants to make sure the students actually understand the concepts rather than memorizing them. I recommend going to office hours.