she's a really good lecturer with a loud clearly audible voice that carries to the back of the classroom. her humor keeps us awake, and she is passionate about the topic. the tests are difficult but fair, enough to make us learn. as a non-econ major, the course was difficult for me, but the various studying resources that she provided us was extremely helpful, as were here and her great lecture notes. definitely recommended as a wonderful professor

Bresnock's Econ 1 is pretty easy - don't be fooled though - you have to put some time into it. My advice - find a friend that took the course and get their notes - she uses the same lecture notes each quarter. I attended about half of her lectures, did the extra credit, and memorized the lecture notes the night before each exam - pulled off an A-. The only real time I put into this class was for the computer projects and memorizing the lecture notes and the solutions to the practice problems.

she's really smart, knows her material inside and out, helps if you just ask, decent in lecture, tests arent bad, and gives some extra credit. Take her if you want to learn and do okay in the process

I didn't really care for Prof Bresnock's class - it kinda sucked. There was no initiative to go to her lectures - it was EARLY and it was BORING. But you actually need the lectures in order to get her questions on the test. Of course, if you can study from the book itself, that would work too. But a lot of the stuff she goes over in lecture (i.e. her graphs and charts) are on the exams. Also, her TAs can't really speak English well... so they didn't help too much. Her lectures are planned to the dot - she has everything on an overhead projector. And it just seems totally tedious cuz all you do is draw graphs the entire lecture. Pretty soon, unless you REALLY REALLY love the subject, all the graphs just blur together and you don't know which is which. She gives extra credit and no curve though.

If you can read the book and teach yourself the material then you don't even have to attend class or discussion or buy the study guide to get an A. I don't have the study guide, rarely went to lecture, and only went to discussion when there were quizes... the result: i had over 100% entering the final (she even offers 25 points extra credit!). As long as you can comprehend material on your own, this is an easy A, you just have to read the book. For those of you who are audio/visual, the lectures I did attend covered exact book material so if you actually attend lectures then you should have no problem getting an A. She's very organized and there are NO suprprises on the midterm/final. I definitely recommend this professor.

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS FOR AN EASY A, B/C ITS ONLY AN EASY B/C COURSE. if you do all the work assigned and keep up with the reading then it should be an easy A. its about 4 hrs of work a week if u don't wanna fall behind. also do the online quizzes-they help a lot. overall she's a good professor, even though her lectures are hella boring, but you do get the info you need. (yes im from norcal) from what i've heard, she's one of the better econ professors here.

I personally think a good teacher can teach the all the students to the point that they can earn an A. A good professor's lectures should be complementary to the reading, and make sure their complementary classes are complements. First off, this professor is not curving, and statistically nobody can earn an A, if you look at the quizzes, finals, and module assignments, but if you add in all the extra credit, it would boast you into the range of being able to get an A. Second, what the girl said about reading being the most important, it is indeed true because you can expect zero to none help from her. She gives you this face when you ask her questions on clarification, as if you should just reread till you get it, even though you can save an hour of your time rereading by using 5 minutes of hers. And the discussion sessions are completely retarded, if the lectures were somewhat useless, then discussion sessions are mere crappy immitation of the lectures, or repeats of things logical. I.E. "If the firm is losing money, in the long run, it will not be able to hold out. If the total revenue is less than the total cost, then the firm is losing money. The total amount of money lost is Total Revenue - Total Cost = Total Loss." They don't address the deeper issues of the class. I haven't met one student in my discussion session that actually paid complete attention, the things they discuss are so repeative that nobody's even taking notes. The course is overall isn't hard, the reading is easy, the discussion is a breeze, the lectures are nearly pointless, but the quizzes, modules, mid-terms, and finals can be a pain. You don't know what to study, you can memorize the book, answer the online quizzes perfect, do every non-assigned homework problem, and still not get a perfect on the quiz, midterm, or final, you can look at the scores for the class as proof. I might be bias because I expect to walk into a class knowing nothing about it, and walk out knowing everything, without going through the effort of memorizing every single sentence in the book, but learning it from everything overall.

Course is so easy that you don't really need the teacher. But if you did, Bresnock is a cool prof. She's kind (although she looks angry at you at her office hours).
Her tests are the kind of tests that you ace if you study every single sentence in the book, cause some questions are pretty tricky. Her notes are not that helpful. Just stick on the book. The extra credit and the computer projects are super simple, takes almost nothing to get them done.
Tip: Read the book many times (it's long but extremely interesting)

easy class, can't expect a teacher with 400 students to be readily available for every student. We go to a gigantic public school afterall. Read the book, lectures are not too important even though she stresses them and so do all the students. Make sure you spend time on the h.w. assignments and computer projects they are really easy. Go over your test twice to make sure you didnt do anything stupid.

This class wasn't very hard, but it requires a LOT of studying time. I got an A in this class so this is what you need to do to do well: Read the book, read the outline in the study guide, and do the multiple choice setions in the study guide over and over until you master it, especially the tricky ones. If you can do the multiple choice in the study guide, you'll ace her quizzes and multiple choice part of the midterm. The day before the midterms and final, I also looked at all the problems she posted on her site, which is a lot, but try to do most of them and just look over the other ones and you'll do fine. The short answer portion of her tests are not bad at all. Bresnock is a very good lecturer, but she is HORRIBLE at office hours. She can be really mean and sarcastic. I only went to her office hours twice, but I always went to my TA, Mark, who was really good.