ECON 3020

Fairly hands off / "on your own" teaching style in this class. Very few grades or assignments to turn in for this class at all (I would bet most people's entire course grade was just their dutch knockout final exam).

Toshi was great. Sometimes he is hard to understand, but he writes everything on the board that you need to know. Tests were fine and he does dutch knockout. The few times I went to discussion it was very helpful, but it was optional on Friday late afternoon and hard to get myself to go. #tcf2016

Best professor for this course. It's hard because sometime you cannot understand what he is saying (heavy Japanese accent), but he writes everything on the board. You got to go to class. It's the only way to do well in this course. Final is dutch knock out.

Mukoyama is an absolute legend. Go to class, take notes (he writes everything on the board), and you'll do fine. I'm sure he's the best 302 professor in the Economics Department.

Toshihiko is awesome! Hes got so much enthusiasm and clearly knows his stuff. Hes a great lecturer and his exams are directly off his notes.

This class is pretty easy. Dutch knockout style. Your final can be 90% of your grade. Just read his notes online and the book and you will be fine.

Jieran really made the class make sense, Toshi is a very simple lecturer and sometimes misses running through the fine points that really make the subject click. Overall an easy class though. If you mess up the midterm the weight is shifted to the final. Homeworks are graded on completion, not right or wrong.

Class is dutch knock out style. Easy A if you just read the material and can understand the graphs. Did not really go to class that much.

This class is aweful. I went by the reviews to find out that most students who do well are really smart kids who have done lot of econ courses. I would not recommend you this class unless you are a pro at economics and want to learn extra studd for no reason.

Quite an easy course. Weekly homework was graded on effort and was relatively easy. Mukoyama is very enthusiastic in class and explains the concepts clearly. TA was very accessible as well and knows his stuff.

Easiest class I have taken at UVA. Make sure you go to class at take notes (pretty easy to do since he writes EVERYTHING on the board). Homework is graded on effort. The final is worth 60% of your grade which may seem daunting but it is very easy and based on the things he focused on in class. Don't need to read the book - in fact you could save yourself some money and just not buy it.

Don't really have to read the book, but definitely attend lecture and take good notes. Review your notes, and understand them fully. Going to discussion helps too if you did not understand how to do some part of the homework problem set

Understand lecture notes (follow along during class and copy down everything he writes on board) and homework (go to discussions if you don't understand the answer key posted online) and you will do fine on the midterm and final. There are alot more math questions on the final, but you don't really need to solve for anything; make sure you understand the proof for each equation and how everything is derived and the math questions will be a breeze.

This is probably the best option out there for taking Econ 302. Mukoyama is not a very interesting lecturer, but if you take good notes and do the homework You should be okay. The homeworks are easy, and if you do miss a lecture or two you can find the exact topic in the textbook (probably more clearly explained than when Mukoyama teaches it). Midterm and Final make up 90% of your grade, and the dutch knockout is in effect. Study your homeworks well for both and you should be okay.

The final exam is considerably harder than the midterm. This class also includes plenty of math.

Mukoyama is an awful, boring lecturer. The material is very dry. I had high expectations for this class after having taken ECON 301, and Mukoyama totally failed at reaching those expectations for me.

This class is awful but I would recommend Toshi. Although the material is very dry and pretty difficult, he makes the midterm not too difficult and homework is graded on effort. Overall I'd say the class is easier than 3010 but still hard.

Literally the easiest class at UVa. Lectures are worthless and the tests are EXACTLY the same as the homeworks(which are graded for completion).

Like most professors in the dept. Mukoyama uses the dutch grading system, so study up for the final and it can determine 90% of your grade. Otherwise he teaches to the book and tests you on it. What more do you want?

All his assignments were based on effort. As long as you went to class, i think you should be fine. I stopped going to class after the first midterm and totally failed everything after that. He does not have online slides, so missing class=fail.

This class was very easy. I had heard terrible things about 302 but I found it incredibly easy. I think it may have just been the teacher. The hw is graded on effort and the tests take 30 minutes to ace.

If you see this prof. teaching this class on the COD, run as fast as you can in the other direction.

awful class. avoid this professor if you can - macro is bad enough with a good professor.

What everyone else has already said is entirely true. He remained nice and enthusiastic throughout the semester but reading straight from the powerpoints didn't explain things a bit. You have to teach yourself and the exams (especially the second one) are ridiculously hard. I'd definitely recommend another professor.

Econ 302 seems to be a reltively hard subject to teach, as I've realized that most 302 professors are shot down by the students. Mukoyama was very enthusiastic in the beginning and was actulally good, but towards the end he stopped caring and became a very creppy professor. The class isn;t particularly difficult. Poe is the man!

terrible class - what everyone has said about Toshi reading off of slides is right. i taught myself all the material by reading the slides and the book before the final. Poe is a great TA though, a little hard to understand at first, but brilliant and good at explaning the material.

This is the worst class I have taken at UVA. The professor reads straight off of his powerpoint slides, which simply paraphrase the textbook.The material is straightforward if you read the textbook, but there is no reason to even come to class. He has difficulty speaking English. Exams are fair and not too difficult if you understand the textbook.

Tolerable course, miserable teacher. His inability to speak English is rivaled only by his inability to deal with people when he is approached for questions. He reads straight from the PPT slides (making class attendance utterly useless), and he doesn't explain in any coherent way any of the few 302 concepts that aren't completely logical (i.e. Solow model). Awful teacher.

ECON 302 is a major requirement but not an interesting subject to begin with, and Mr. Mukoyama makes it unbearable. He has never taught a big class before this semester, has limited English-speaking ability, and basically just reads his PPT slides. On tests, he awards little partial credit and is completely unflexible when you talk to him, even raising his voice! Stay away.

terrible class. professor just read off power point... i learned everything from the book the week before the final. if it weren't required nobody should take this

the class is textbook storytime, i had to teach myself the materials, he is just a TERRIBLE professor, doesnt explain anything, and baffles when you dont understand something, just repeats what he said before.