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.

Honestly went better than I expected and I thought it was easier than Econ 11, but very similar format. My only issue was the curve barely improved my grade, even though I did relatively well.

Well, I passed, so that's the pro part. I came from the sad class of pizzas and champagne for Mazz's 11 class and so, comparatively, this class was slightly easier. I laugh at the ECON department instead, for just stressing students out and placing them in a tough situation because of classes like these. IMO, Bernardo tried HARD to help us out. However, with that dumb ECON curve, it is a system of failure that decreases students' academic and work opportunities with these weeder classes, and ironically, you would think economists would know better.

Class-wise, it was fine. The class is what is it is - more calculus than economics. Midterm was sad. Final was long afk = sad. What else is there to be said? Bernando really does his best though - Can't take that away from him.

overall, the class was pretty difficult, but i found that the pre-recorded lectures were really clear and didn't need to go to the q and a sessions. akina is also an amazing ta and would go through the problem sets step-by-step with me. the first midterm was definitely the harder of the two and the second one was almost identical to the practice ones he gave us. the final was really difficult, but gave a super nice curve. he's really understanding as an econ prof and definitely wants us to understand the material