Galuzzi seemed like a great professor to me. I honestly just thought of him as a cool vampire teacher because of his accent. This class is heavily math based. So if you don't know how to do some higher calculus, you're probably gonna need to learn that as you go. For me, I've always been good at math so this class was kind of a piece of cake. I think the only reason why I didn't get an A was because of the final (which was really long and time consuming). But he did warn us since so many people did so well on his midterms (I think the average for midterm 2 was a high B) he would have to make the final harder to balance the grades out.
That being said, your grade is based on 2 different grading schemes, whichever is higher: 30% for two midterms and a final and 10% for weekly problem sets OR 40% for the highest midterm, 50% for the final, and 10% for the weekly problem sets. Like I said, the midterms weren't terribly hard as long as you did the problem sets. And the problem sets were pretty straight forward, although I did use coursehero sometimes to check my work, I felt like if you had a buddy in the class, you'd be able to get the work done together.
Overall, I loved this class and it squashed my doubts of wanting to become an Econ major. I would definitely recommend this class.

Galuzzi is a good professor and he lectures using OneNote projected on a giant screen, the notes which he later uploads on CCLE, which I found super helpful and useful. He's pretty clear at explaining the concepts but sometimes has a habit of backtracking and not teaching in the most helpful order. There are weekly problem sets, but they're graded by completion.

I thought Alessio was a pretty bad professor. He does seem to know his stuff and attempts to explain theory behind certain things, but he generally does it in an unclear and ineffective way. He spends most of his time giving algebraic proofs of certain things or working out uselessly complicated examples instead of giving us an understanding of the ideas behind the math. I felt like I didn't understand econ any better by the end of this class, just knew some new formulas. He's also just super dry so even if he was doing a decent job lecturing at times, it was just hard to stay focused. The midterms were easy, like if you write down the formulas on your cheat sheet and know how to do homework problems, they should easy As. The final was definitely much harder, but part of the problem was that I got baited into not studying because of the midterms being so straightforward. Study more than you think you need to for the final, especially on the last few topics. Overall I wouldn't recommend this professor but he's not horrible or anything. If you need to take econ 11 this quarter and there aren't significantly better options, he is just fine.

Galluzzi is actually not bad as a professor, he can just be a little dry sometimes, but that's just the nature of the material we're learning. He also posts all of the notes he writes down in class on CCLE and gives very short problem sets that are pretty good practice. His midterms were too easy, as they had medians above 80%, so he had to make the final harder. But honestly, the final was a challenging but fair extension of the material we had learned up to that point (For reference, I got 100% on the final, not sure if the test itself was curved or not). It is very evident that Galluzzi cares about his students and wants them to learn, as he responds very quickly to posts on CCLE forums and is overall very patient about answering questions. I definitely would recommend him.

his lecture notes are adequate to get you through the midterms. He allows one page of cheat sheet which if you cram it with lecture notes, you should be able to solve everything in the exam. plus, you can fill it with short cut formulae (you have to independently find these) to solve questions faster. this class is all math, specifically calculus, so although he only gives one 3-5 question problem set per week, you should practice and go to office hours in your own time. DO NOT FALL BEHIND. the final was insanely hard, got all of us thinking of switching our majors, but he curved it

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Galluzzi's exams are pretty okay, if you just listen to lecture and know how to do the problems that he goes through in class, you will definitely be able to do well on the exams. Spend a little more effort memorizing all of the formulae that he goes through in class and you will ACE the exams with no problems at all! He talks with a bit of thick accent, but he's patient in answering questions, so that's a HUGE plus!