ECON 2010

Highly recommend Marc! He is super nice and approachable, and his lectures are well organized. Go to the lectures, he explains things very clearly. Everything in this class is graded fairly. He gives out lots of practice problems which well prepare us for the tests. Great class.

I love Marc! I learned so much from him. He is very approachable and super helpful in office hours. I definitely recommend going and talking with him because he will remember who you are. He is more math based but it's just basic algebra. I really recommend him.

Marc is such an awesome professor. He walks around the lecture hall every morning and says hi to everyone and asks them how they are. Always in such a good mood and makes you want to come to class. Taking this class made me interested in being an Econ major. Also, it's fun listening to him lecture with his accent. The class is not an easy A but week-to-week work is minimal besides going to lecture and doing one homework assignment a week. The tests can be tricky so definitely study a lot for them. They require you to build on what you learned in lecture to sometimes do problems you have not done before. That being said, there is no assigned reading at all and vocabulary you need to know is also extremely limited. The two midterms averaged 89 and 84, so not bad.

The workload for this class is totally manageable with Marc. He's the sweetest man and he's really passionate about learning economics. However, if you're looking for real-world connections, this class isn't it. He doesn't use the textbook and the lectures are very graph/diagram heavy, so it's very hard to conceptualize the material and figure out how this stuff is even applicable to the field of Econ. The work wasn't terribly hard, but the TA grading is completely subjective. Hundanol is stingy with partial credit on the homework, so definitely recommend a different TA because those points are crucial.

Marc is awesome. His lectures are always well prepared and he genuinely wants everyone to do well. He's a super approachable and nice guy as well. He did this thing where he played music and said hi to everyone in the class, and he would randomly choose a student and give them a gift card and t-shirt. The material builds up on itself, so don't let yourself fall behind and then try to learn everything in a week!! The avg for the midterms were 89 and 84, and the final exam avg was a 79. Honestly, if you understand the lecture notes and review clicker questions, you'll get an A in the class. It's super fair and there are even extra points you can get through TA points that will raise your grade. Marc taught the material almost entirely with graphs and equations, but even if that's not your thing, you'll still be ok.

Microeconomics itself is difficult but he provides a lot of opportunities to practice. Every week you get clicker questions during class (and you can use the Reef App), practice problems (that you will go over in discussion and isn't graded), homework (which is a couple of problems but it is graded), and a quiz at the end of discussion (that is not counted in your final grade). He also does tutoring sessions before each test which are lead by his previous students and those same questions are an opportunity for points in different areas like TA points or clicker question points. He also buys cookies for the tutoring sessions. At the beginning of class, he randomized the list of students and gave away a free shirt that was sometimes accompanied by a gift card or cookies. The course is very math based but it is definitely do-able.

Marc is one of my favorite professors--he is so charismatic and clearly wants everyone to have a good time while doing well in the class. (He also gives out tons of free stuff by lottery). Attendance in lecture is mandatory because of clicker questions, but I felt that going to lecture was a good idea anyway since he was so good at explaining concepts. There is a homework worksheet due each week in discussion, and there are weekly practice problems that you should do. Personally, I always did the homework and rarely did the practice problems and ended up with an A+ in the class. The tests are decently difficult--the practice problems and the homework are a good indicative of what the tests will look like. Like most of the Econ professors, he uses Dutch Knockout, so if your final grade is better than your course grade, he takes that score instead. There is also a curve of some sort involved. The final was somewhat harder than the other tests--I went from getting an A on the tests to an A- on the final--so I wouldn't totally count on the Dutch Knockout. Overall, I would recommend this class--the concepts were interesting and the class wasn't particularly hard.

Santugini taught econ in a very unique way basically using only graphs. It wasnt hard to learn the concepts and regurgitate them on the tests but I came away not really understanding anything about econ in the context of the real world. If you need to fulfill a requirement and dont want a lot of work this is a good option for econ but if you are interested in really learning about econ concepts/ need to know them for future classes I suggest Elzinga instead.

Santugini is the nicest guy ever! He started every class walking around and greeting all his students and he always played this techno music to get us all pumped up and ready to learn. I really enjoyed his lectures and found his tests fairly easy (except the final which was insane-- don't rely on dutch knockout). He doesn't assign reading and the only outside work is short easy homework assignments each week to turn in to your TA. He also assigns practice problems that are not required but CRITICAL if you want to do well on the tests because that's where the actually tricky questions are. Elzinga is a legend but I have no regrets taking micro with Santugini

Santugini is a really nice guy, very passionate about econ. The class is not too difficult if you go to lecture, do the homework, and do the practice problems. I'd highly recommend going to discussion and attending the tutoring sessions. Sometimes Santugini goes over things too quickly and its nice to have clarifications. My TA was Paige and she was great - super helpful especially before the tests. Go over the tutoring tests before the exams super extensively because its exactly like the exams