ECON 3010

You have to come to lecture for this class. He takes attendance and it will really hurt your grade in the end if you miss classes. The material is a little bit tricky, but I felt like class was a good indication of the tests. The tests are multiple choice, but sometimes there were so many options that it didn't really help.

Steven's discussion sections were pretty much worthless. Ciliberto was a good professor though, seemed like he really cared about people learning and was happy to answer questions.

Ciliberto is an engaging, motivational professor that requires you to be an active listener and participant in his lectures. He makes the class actually INTERESTING. He is by far the best professor I've had at UVA. I will say though that his exams are very hard. If you need to take ECON 301, Ciliberto is the man the take it with. Like I said, highly recommended.

Ciliberto is a really smart guy who knows his stuff, but his method of running through math concepts so quickly without showing you the steps makes it really hard to follow. Most of the stuff I just ended up teaching myself the night before the test, but lectures are mandatory and make a portion of your grade. Exams are difficult and make you race the clock, but no one does particularly well and the curve is helpful. I wouldn't recommend this class unless you're an econ major. But I've heard Ciliberto is the best professor for 3010, so if you have to take it, you might as well take it with him.

Ciliberto is an extremely nice guy who tries his hardest to teach one of the most difficult subjects anywhere. Thanks to this class, I have a thorough understanding of the building blocks of economics. Exams are tricky but fair. Homeworks can be labor-intensive.

Great Teacher, great lecturer

This class wasn't too bad for a supposed "weed-out" class. Professor gives out solutions the day for the problem sets are due, which is nice. Exams are multiple choice, but definitely need to study for them. However, if you go to all the lectures and read the book, you'll be fine. Overall, this class with this professor is worthwhile taking.

This is the hardest class I've taken at UVa so far. It's in-depth QUANTITATIVE analysis of the underlying principles of microeconomics. I thought one of the hardest things of this class was that you needed to understand the economic principles themselves, but then also needed to translate them into mathematical expressions and then solve the expressions. I found the textbook to be boring and wordy. Ciliberto is an OK professor and really tries his best to teach a difficult topic. However, he goes through the material way too fast and it is very hard to keep up with taking notes and thinking about what he is actually saying. It's nice that he learns all of his students' names and writes his notes on the board. Midterms are hard and time-pressure is extreme. He takes attendance every lecture and there are weekly homeworks that can be time-consuming and difficult. Overall, I learned a decent amount in this class (also a certain way of thinking about stuff). There is a very large curve.

Ciliberto is a great professor. He genuinely cares about students and always makes time to ensure that people are keeping up with his lectures. I'm surprised that there are so many reviews saying he goes too fast - if you ever have a question he practically begs you to ask. His class is hard but it is very fair, and if you do the work, you will do well.

This class can be extremely frustrating all semester, but in the end it really comes down to the final which is 45% of your grade. The two midterms (15% and 30%) can be really tricky and the one thing that is really frustrating about his exams is he uses serial questions where if you get the first one wrong you will get the next 6 that correspond to it wrong as well. For the final study the old practice tests and take notes on the problems you got wrong on the midterms. Other than that Federico is a good lecturer; he goes kinda quick but wants you to ask questions.