ECON 134
Environmental Economics
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisites: course 41 or Statistics 12 or 13, and course 101. Introduction to major ideas in natural resources and environmental economics, with emphasis on designing incentives to protect environment. Highlights important role of using empirical data to test hypotheses about pollution's causes and consequences. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2023 - I think the class was not as hard as other reviews say. Do not follow the bruin walk grade distribution because it is misleading. The professor is a good lecturer and he knows what he's talking about, during his class he'll make references to other Econ classes (from Econ 1 to Econ 106). The exams are pretty tricky for the multiple choice but if you do all the study questions and practice problems you'll be more than fine. the grade is based only on three exams. I personally took very good notes (do not try to understand the notes without the lecture because he provides exams questions during the lectures). I studied for this class probably for 8 days the whole quarter. Go to the regraded sections that he holds after each exam, my grade improved by 8/10% for every single exam after the regrade section.
Winter 2023 - I think the class was not as hard as other reviews say. Do not follow the bruin walk grade distribution because it is misleading. The professor is a good lecturer and he knows what he's talking about, during his class he'll make references to other Econ classes (from Econ 1 to Econ 106). The exams are pretty tricky for the multiple choice but if you do all the study questions and practice problems you'll be more than fine. the grade is based only on three exams. I personally took very good notes (do not try to understand the notes without the lecture because he provides exams questions during the lectures). I studied for this class probably for 8 days the whole quarter. Go to the regraded sections that he holds after each exam, my grade improved by 8/10% for every single exam after the regrade section.
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Fall 2023 - Rafey cares a lot about this topic and applying economic theory to environmental problems. He had some interesting lectures with a couple of cool case studies, however, the class was entirely based on the midterm and final which sometimes only had one or two true/false questions relating to those case studies. The rest of the tests were on micro/macro econ questions you might see in 101 or 102 based on environmental problems, and it helped a lot to study prior tests/problem sets of his to prepare. I thought this class was interesting, but lectures did get dry at times as Rafey is a young prof who may not have a ton of experience teaching undergrads. I would also recommend taking advantage of office hours in this class as it helped a lot to understand some of his more complex problems he gives on homework/tests. I would only recommend it if you are interested in the intersection of environmental policy and economics.
Fall 2023 - Rafey cares a lot about this topic and applying economic theory to environmental problems. He had some interesting lectures with a couple of cool case studies, however, the class was entirely based on the midterm and final which sometimes only had one or two true/false questions relating to those case studies. The rest of the tests were on micro/macro econ questions you might see in 101 or 102 based on environmental problems, and it helped a lot to study prior tests/problem sets of his to prepare. I thought this class was interesting, but lectures did get dry at times as Rafey is a young prof who may not have a ton of experience teaching undergrads. I would also recommend taking advantage of office hours in this class as it helped a lot to understand some of his more complex problems he gives on homework/tests. I would only recommend it if you are interested in the intersection of environmental policy and economics.
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Fall 2020 - Yuki is the sweetest professor. She really cares about her students and it made me sad to see not a lot of people go to lectures/have their cameras on because I can tell she misses teaching in person. Her lectures are not necessary to go to at all as long as you thoroughly read the textbook and look over her slides and also do the homework problems and sample questions, as you'll find everything there that you need to do well on exams. She can be confusing when she tries to explain something, but she does her best and is very knowledgeable about the class. Overall, this is a very laid-back, easygoing class. Yuki may not be the clearest professor, but I personally didn't find her difficult to follow, and she is the nicest person.
Fall 2020 - Yuki is the sweetest professor. She really cares about her students and it made me sad to see not a lot of people go to lectures/have their cameras on because I can tell she misses teaching in person. Her lectures are not necessary to go to at all as long as you thoroughly read the textbook and look over her slides and also do the homework problems and sample questions, as you'll find everything there that you need to do well on exams. She can be confusing when she tries to explain something, but she does her best and is very knowledgeable about the class. Overall, this is a very laid-back, easygoing class. Yuki may not be the clearest professor, but I personally didn't find her difficult to follow, and she is the nicest person.