Dr.Pedersen is an amazing professor whose lectures focus having all students understand ideas from basic ideas. His explanations on the topic matter is always broadly informed and above all, he cares about the questions of the students. Dr.Pedersen is always readily available, even as he had a rough quarter in other matters he shared about.

worst professor. unorganized and uncommunicative throughout the quarter. all the exams ended up being online but they were all super difficult. would post everything he said he would late. never released the grades for anything even after grades were due. and he missed the deadline so i didn't know my grade until two weeks after grades were due.

Actually no help at all during the entire quarter. Inaccessable by any means of communication, lectures that are just him reading off the textbook, no clear criteria on grading, Its past finals week and still dont know what I got on any of the assignments in the quarter.

We had two online quizzes, a midterm, a final project, and a final exam. He forgot to post study material for the in-person midterm so he postponed it for 10 days and made it online. I'm writing this the day before finals week and he hasn't posted grades for any of the quizzes or midterm so we have no idea of what our current grades are. Hard class

Been suffering from insomnia for a while now, but this professor solved that for me! Monotone lectures read directly off the slides put me right to sleep. Literally struggled to stay awake, only took this professor due to schedule limitations

Though class has no prereqs that relate to finance, Pedersen teaches it as if you're already supposed to know everything he does. Lectures consist of spewed out random equations and no logic/work with a spreadsheet that makes no sense/no explanation of how he got numbers. No hw to supplement, quizzes extremely difficult, no clear structure of work.

Great at teaching staff. He really knows what he is talking about. The class content is hard but I actually started to be interested in finance because of his lectures. He gives notes and materials for you to study the topics too and is very generous in grading the quizzes and tests.

Currently taking PSTAT171 in the spring. I think the feedback got to him, the class has been a lot better this quarter. Three out of the four quizzes are online and 48hr. The final is online but only a three hour window. If the quizzes and final were in person, this class would have been atrocious.

I took his PSTAT 170 in spring, and Pedersen was actually pretty nice that quarter. He was super generous in the quizzes, almost all the quiz problems came from his lecture example or section problems. And he had no homework. His exam was fair too. He probably learned how to be a nice professor after his first quarter teaching this class.

three weeks into the course the syllabus was still missing. Almost no email communication; and when he send email saying he "expected to post the missing syllabus & lectures later that day", he failed to do so in most cases. Barely reply to email or piazza until we emailed the department. Really hypocritical and mean when he does reply on piazza.

He so bad, I write like this to fit word limit. He only prof I write a bad review about in my 4 years. He not complete awful at teaching, but he rarely reply to email, no other way to comm. due to covid. Very irresponsible, often late, while also hypocritical. Had to email PSTAT advisor on 2 occasion to get him to reply and he rude when he does.

Said he would assign 7-8 homeworks when he only assigned 3. Late to lecture often, up to 15 minutes .We took the midterm, he told everyone 10 minutes before to keep their test face down. One student walked in after this; he was berated for "lack of academic integrity" for having his test face up, when it's his job to make a cover page for his test.