Don't ask him to be on your dissertation committee. He'll forget to sign letters of recommendation again and again

There is absolutely no point in going to class. His lectures are really easy to understand (and boring), but it rarely relates to the almost impossible quizes. The TAs teach you everything you need to know. Just copy off of your smart friends during quizes and study for the final.

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Just show up to class and do the homework, thats the key to Shapiro's class. He is helpful if you go see him in office hours, but during lecture he is quite boring. Definetly needs to make a boring subject a little more interesting.

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this guy really sucks at teaching, if ur good at teaching urself from the book then there should be no problem, its not a hard class over all

Professor Shapiro makes the class pretty easy. His quizzes are not that hard if you study his lectures and the workouts he emphasizes, you should do okay. He'll tell you exactly which topics will be on the final, make sure you study it in the textbook if you didn't understand his lectures.

Shapiro is hard to follow, makes a lot of mistakes during lecture, and unorganized. The curve doesn't help...60% of the class gets a C or lower...He does tell you exactly what will be on the quizzes...threw a loop on the final...just do as well as you can on the quizzes

Easy class, Finals and Quizes were exactly what he said they would be like. Bottom line, if you can not get at least a B in this class, you should go to soc or cc

Econ 100B is the 2nd class that I've taken with Shapiro. He is by far the worst professor I've had at UCSB. The only reason he's "straightforward" is b/c all the 100B classes use the same workbook and textbook. His lectures are very disorganized and hard to follow. Also, he sets up the curve so that 60% of the class receives a C or lower.