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ECON 2010 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Last taught: Fall 2025
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Fall 2009
5.0
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A must take class at UVA

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Fall 2009
4.0
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A good class but the discussion section and homework problems were a big time waste. Understand the basic concepts, and you will be golden.

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 3.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Fall 2009
4.0
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The class was harder than I expected but very doable if you read. Elzinga is a G.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Fall 2009
4.7
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Elzinga is a wonderful professor. Engaging lectures and tests aren't too difficult (they essentially come directly from his lectures)

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Fall 2009
4.3
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Good class to take!

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 0.0
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Fall 2009
4.0
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Great TA

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 3.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 4.0
Fall 2009
3.7
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First half of the semester isn't too bad but the final is a killer. Elzinga is enthusiastic and approachable and makes lectures as enjoyable as possible.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 3.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Fall 2009
3.7
Average

I fell in love with Elzinga the moment I met him. His lectures are very interesting and its worth going to every class. The class is huge but its okay because you can easily find/create a study group. Make sure you get a good discussion time verses getting a good TA. I loved my TA but I had the WORST time ever(8am on friday, yuck). TOTALLY RECOMMEND!

Instructor 1.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Fall 2009
4.3
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Interesting class. Elzinga can be a bit of a boring lecturer at times, but he is very nice and willing to help you if you don't understand something. Although everyone says that the final is difficult, as long as you prepare enough you'll be fine. I actually did better on the final than I did on the second test.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Fall 2009
4.0
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Elzinga's class is okay. I can understand why first-years who come to U.Va and take his class during their first semester obsess over him, but from an upperclassman's perspective, he's really not a special lecturer. I do have to give him props for making himself SO available for office hours / random discussions / dinners at his house. He seems to care about his students a lot, but I just don't think he was that great as a professor. Eggleston is the best T.A. far and away. Easy grader, knows his stuff.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 2.0
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