If you have the opportunity to take it with Bernardo DO IT!! I found his lectures super helpful. This class is A LOT of game theory and builds a but of 11. This class honestly isnt bad. He gives students the previous tests to study from which are pretty similar to the actual test (I found). He curved our class pretty generously at the end as well. Overall he tries his best to make this class as easy as possible, def take it.

Amazing! If you plan to do Econ 101 sometime in the future, please do it with Prof. Silveira. He genuinely cares about his students doing well and is an excellent lecturer. His assignments and practice materials are very helpful for the exams, which, by the way, are VERY reasonable. This guy made me fall in love with Economics all over again!

This professor is the goat. He has a super generous curve and is one of the best Econ professors at the school. Highly recommend taking him in the Spring quarter!!

Bernardo is a pretty solid teacher. His slides are clear but when he strays off to his iPad that clarity is sometimes lost. He has funny handwriting that is in all caps but it is not a big problem. The class has 5 or 6 homeworks which are grades on accuracy for 10% of the grade - lowest one is dropped. Sometimes these homeworks can take hours but it does help you understand if you fight through. There are 2 midterms and a final. Midterm one covers mostly monopoly, some oligopoly, and the basics of game theory. I found this midterm to be the harder of the two. After this, the class content takes a huge dive and honestly becomes very hard. However, the content is also interesting if you enjoy Econ / game theory. I preformed well on midterm 2 but I think I got lucky. The last two questions were prefaced with “you have never seen anything like this before but…”. The final was very difficult, the median was a 68. In the end, Bernardo followed through on his promise to curve the class fairly, at least in my opinion. Overall, he is a solid teacher and the class is difficult but not horrible.

Bernaardo is a GOAT!

Very fair and reasonable professor, this is a hard class but if you have a chance to take it with Silveira definitely go for it. Tests are easier than I expected (still hard overall) because they’re a lot like the practice tests. There are two midterms and homework and your lowest midterm and hw gets dropped. I scored between 7-10 points/100 above the median for one midterm and final and got an A-.

Bernardo is the best professor. Just pick him and enjoy your econ 101.

This professor is literally Mazzocco 2.0. His exams were all multiple choice and fairly easy and were very similar to the practice exam. He made Econ 101 one of the easiest econ classes I've taken but I messed up the midterms because I had other obligations and took them essentially with Econ 11 knowledge only. He also gives out grades based on cutoffs instead of using a departmental curve which was clutch. Overall, would highly recommend him. A small complaint is he really does not tolerate side chatter but besides that nothing bad about Bernardo

It was a good class. I would've gotten an A if I hadn't misread a question on the final which was actually very easy. Do the TA practice problems as they're essentially the same thing you'd get on the exam.

For a seminar, the workload was on the heavier side. There was a weekly one-page assignment in which we had to break down the essential elements of the paper we were assigned to read. These elements included the research question, data sets, empirical challenges, and conclusions. We were also split into two-person teams for a single group project that required us to give a PowerPoint presentation of the above elements for a different paper from the one everyone was assigned for the week. The class is small—there were only 10 students—, so be prepared to know your stuff. You will not succeed if you choose to sit in the background and say nothing. The topic of the seminar, discrimination in the justice system, was extremely interesting and engaging. An overall great experience, especially if you are interested in research in the social sciences.