Attended his class back in 2000. Make sure you understand what Leading Economic Indicators are. Understand the circular flow of the economy. C+I+Gwages+rent+interest payments+profits. You should be able to know how changing the variables affect the macro model. Otherwise why are you even majoring in Econ? The TAs helped tremendously.

Dr. Morgan is an incredibly intelligent professor also a great man. However, his exams are very tough and tricky. Best of luck to all who take him because you will need it. Use the TA's, tutors, text and everything else at your disposal to help.

Extremely difficult class. Can't answer questions to save his life. Hosts assignments on an unnavigable wall of text website that you must meticulously extract the requirements from before you can even think about starting it. Didn't update Spring syllabus for our Summer course. Basically, he is unhelpful in the extreme. Hope you have a good TA.

Hard at first, but class gets easier. I get the feeling he grades subjectively, so go into office hours and ask questions and you should be fine.

Bad. Bad Bad Bad. Did not make it clear what was important and what wasn't. Not helpful in office hours. Avoid him please.

It is unbelieveable that they gave this guy tenure. Spends the entire class rambling and showing old economics articles, then fails to relate them back to the class. Extremely poor at organizing material. This is the worst experience I have had in college.

Absolutely not worth it! Morgan is the worst ECON lecturer at UCSB; he's just old, not focused, and fails to properly convey the principles to the class; the T.A.'s pretty much teach the class. The amount of material you're expected to digest is just as enormous as all the homework/assignments he assigns. If possible, take 101 with some one else.

The amount of work required was ridiculous, I've taken easier 5 unit classes. 3 years and this is the first grade I've ever gotten for a class that was below a C. 4 hw assignments, some project at Instruc. Computing, a weekly journal, quiz in section every other week, 2 midterms and final. Morgan can't lecture and he'll randomly put up news article

This guy is terrible. Avoid if possible. lecture is all over the place and incomprehensable. Doesn't teach what he tests you on. Not interesting. His course website is a single page block of microfont text, which has all of the assignments. His class was a bad experience that I hope to forget, especislly since econ is an interesting subject for me.

Morgan is the WORST thing to happen to an Econ major. Believe me when I tell you, take this class with ANYONE but Morgan. Worst Econ class at UCSB

DO NOT take Econ 101 with Morgan. He assigns a rediculous amount of work, his lectures are convoluted, and his tests are hard.

This class is harder than usual, beware. But with that said, you do learn a lot. But he doesn't really teach it to you, he just tells you what you need to know and then you have to learn it by yourself. Libby Ashley is the best TA, I just went to her sections, she explains things so well. She also helped me with the assignments.

Morgan is a terrible teacher. The material isnt all that difficult as many make it out too be, but that is almost entirely due to the way the textbook explains it. Unfortunately Morgan doesn't use the text at all in his tests. Most of the exam questions come from topics he spoke on for two minutes. Avoid at all costs. Theres enough others.

He's a great professor for the difficulty of the material. Its not ture that he's bad, its just stupid people not being able to understand the material. Study a lot and do the homework, it helps. You will feel a lot better after the first midterm.

Please dont waste your time taking him!

Morgan is a bad teacher. He knows the subject, but doesn't know how to teach. He is ridiculously unorganized. Assignments seem to be worth more than they are. Do Not take 101 with this Professor.

Horrible professor, don't take it with morgan!!! He makes the material unneccesarily boring. He talks very randomly. Wastes most of class every lecture talking about macro news....putting up photocopies of news. Instead of teaching us material. The homework sets are really easy. The assignments are too hard and worth too little. Final was hard

NOT that bad, he is just very disorganized...read the 7-page syllabus carefully to keep up w/readings&projects. And it is very easy to daydream in his class since he speaks in monotone, but if you can pay attention you'll find he says important things quickly and w/o writing them down. STAY FOCUSED and take good notes in lect!

very unclear about what hes talking about - it doesnt seem like he knows

Morgan is alright. The projects are great for understanding how to write reports and it looks good for your resume.

Learned more in this class than any other econ class. generous curve. Best thing about his class compared to other 101 teachers (Kapika) is there is not much calculus involved. There are a couple projects, but the TA should show you how to do. The material is challenging, but take it with Morgan if you can.

Im tired of people ****n about Morgan. This class is supposed to be hard; there is no excuse for hard work. When you do put the work in you, will be able to understand current macroeconomic issues. Overall a great class

worst econ teacher ever...he looked like the bad guy from the first Sonic video game. As for his teaching: "Try to keep up".

unbelievable how many unsatisfied students there were, I still can't believe this guys got tenure with the university. Not to mention he got booed at our graduation when he spoke, how the hell'd they let him speak anyways