I really like Lanny. If you go to his office hours and make an effort you will get an A. There is one essay, midterm and final, and in-class quizzes. The content is not hard if you study and the quiz questions are super obvious if you do the reading. Easy upper div elective, but you MUST go to class. He just cares about effort.

Attendance/Quizzes 40%, Mid-Term 15%, Paper 25%, Final 20%. Daily reading assignments (8-15 pages). 4-question true/false pop quiz once a week based on the reading. 10-page essay. In-class midterm consisted of 7 multiple-choice and 3 essay questions. Final was take-home. Overall, the material is easy, but grading is harsh.

Can't say enough bad things. Just don't take his class. Mandatory attendance, only one absence allowed. Horrible, boring, irrelevant lectures. No guidance for the paper. I wanted to like this class but I hated every second of it.

Avoid this class if you care about your sanity & your GPA. Too many readings and papers. Expectations to succeed on lengthy research papers were unclear, lectures were unorganized (yet mandatory), grading was tougher than other Econ electives, & the amount of reading is absolutely absurd. 50% of your grade is attendance but only counts against you.

Professor Ebenstein is very disorganized and openly admits to being right-leaning in his lectures, going on tangents about things that have nothing to do with the subject matter. He makes it difficult to discern what will get you a good grade, and he stresses attendance despite his lectures detailing nothing actually relevant to the class. ew.

He assigns 70 pages of reading before each lecture and then assigns an in class quiz on the reading. I usually dont have a problem with reading but when its 70 pages for every lecture i think it starts to get out of hand. Its also a little annoying that you have no way to meet with TA who grades your papers. Besides these problems the prof is nice.