The lectures (twice a week) and section had absolutely nothing to do with the course and do very little to help further your understanding of required material. This course is primarily taught through pre-recorded videos which do not have to be watched for a grade but you should watch if you want to succeed.

In person mandatory lecture 1x per week. Online lecture vids + quizzes + assignments. Practice tests available but midterms were super difficult. Class avgs were in the 60s. Drops lowest scores for assignments and quizzes. Exams + final count for half your final grade so the grades are pretty padded. Have to self teach a lot!

Online lecture vids and quizzes. In person mandatory class once a week + section. Drops a few of your lowest grades across each category. Exams were super difficult - I didn't learn much in class / from vids and had to self teach a lot. Does give practice tests. Lots of assignments to pad the grade thankfully! Exams are about 50% of final grade

Lectures, quizzes, and assignments are all online and weekly, so it's manageable if you keep up. Attendance is required once a week, and in-person lectures mainly give examples. Group sections help, grades are padded by many assignments, and she drops the lowest scores. Clear exam study guides. Overall, a fair class if you put in some effort.

I basically taught this entire course to myself. She could have made it so easy, but unfortunately she doesn't. I had to brute force an A and it took so much longer than it should have. lectures were nothing like quizzes and tests and you're left alone in trying to learn how to apply the concepts she talks about in lectures. Quite lazy too.

Lectures have nothing to do with tests or quizzes. I had to teach myself the entire course and she makes so many errors and mistakes that make it really difficult to check your work bc she gives you trust issues. If you hate yourself and want to make your life more difficult and confusing then take this class.

Every week we had the same assignments and deadlines which was very easy to manage. Easy to study for because the midterms had the same questions from our practice tests. In the sections you work with a group and solve a worksheet (some of the TAs were not helpful at all). Most weeks we only had lecture on Tuesdays. Overall, an interesting class.

Econ 9 was a straightforward and informative class. Professor Bedard typically leads sections as well as lecture, and she has been nothing but helpful the entire quarter. Lecture attendance is mandatory and there are lots of online assignments, but the few lowest assignment grades are dropped for your final class grade.

Super test-heavy, grading isn't too bad, but she barely teaches anything in class; it's expected to watch her supplement videos on your own time. Too many assignments for a GE.

AVOID TAKING HER CLASS AT ALL COSTS. She's the laziest prof that I've ever had yet makes her course so hard. Theres two midterms and a final, The class average for the first midterm was a 66%. No curve. She's not a good teacher and you'll end up teaching yourself 90% of the class. She "teaches" the sections herself so it's hard to get to know TA's.

Bedard took Econ 9 way too seriously. made an intro to Econ class extremely difficult and test heavy for no reason. mandatory attendance and was disrespectful and rude when i tried to ask questions. like made me feel dumb for asking. would not recommend taking this course if you dont have to.

I love you Kelly Bedard best professor ever! Light workload, very clear expectations, shows you exactly how she will grade each midterm, good lecturer, and has a study session for each test too. She also comes to our sections and will walk around and help guide you through worksheets. Highly highly recommend idk why there's a couple bad reviews

Nothing much to say about the professor. She explains the slides in class, with occasional examples, but remains mostly theoretical. She writes too small on the board if you're in the back of the class. Class was hard but only because there were so few questions on the tests. It wasn't that difficult overall. Study well and you'll be in good shape.

During lecture she hardly gives examples, it's very basic, reading off the slides. You're teaching yourself in a way but still make sure to attend all lectures and sit in the front. I took her during summer, we had lecture quizzes every week, 2 midterms and 1 final. No calculators/cheat sheets/or scratch paper during exams

she is one of those professors who doesn't care about you or your grade and there's a reason they had her stop teaching this class almost a decade ago. not sure y she is back but i rlly hope for future econ majors she's gone by next yr again

This class is one of the easiest at UCSB. I had four exams, one of which was dropped.... all other assignments had unlimited attempts which pretty much guarantee 100% for that part of your grade. Study a decent bit and the exams are not too difficult. Only downside was mandatory iClicker questions in lecture.

The exams in this class are tough, but if you put in the work, you'll be fine. The professor is strict on attendance, but the textbook and resources like Unstuck AI can really help with studying. Overall, a challenging but rewarding class.

Solid professor, better than majority of econ department. Attend lecture, do the iclickers, and review previous exams to study.

I thought Bedard was a great professor! Yes, the exams are difficult, esp if you put minimal time in studying, which a lot of my friends did, but if you take this major class srsly you'll be fine! Bedard drops ur lowest test score (very generous imo) so I didn't have to take the final to get an A. HW was simple & she answered Qs I had about topics!

She made all lectures mandatory with iclicker quiz questions, but I do not mind this at all. I thought the tests were easy for the most part, there were a couple questions here and there that were poorly worded or confusing, but overall good.

This professor makes the exam questions completely different than the practice exams.She also makes the exam so difficult for no reason at all.The wordings can be so confusing that you waste time figuring out what the question is asking, by the time you understand the question, you don't have enough time to do the calculations or check ur answers.

Kelly Bedard may be knowledgeable about economics, but she is terrible at teaching. Not only did I have to re-learn all the topics, I would spend 10+ hours studying for her tests, only to see questions that were completely unrelated to the course material. There was nothing I could do to prepare for the questions, they were so off-topic/confusing.

She wasn't a good professor. Taught us one thing then the tests were 10 times harder and most of the time there wasn't much you could do to prepare for it. The class is simple but she makes it hard. Not fun I wouldn't recommend taking Econ 2 with her.

Goes over slides so fast, exams are extremely difficult, practice exams do not help, and cares way too much about IClicker.