Extra credits. Very helpful. It ready for long exams.

Definitely take a class with Chris Surro. One of the best Econ profs, he makes you realize that Econ isn’t just graphs and memorization but actually something people use in the real world.

Unlike most people jere, I actually don’t find his lecture to be super engaging; however, the content is naturally on the dry side, so I can’t blame him. However, he is super helpful with the class, provides tons of material to study for and make extra office hours and review sessions for the final. He also makes fair tests, problems are pretty similar to his practice problem sets throughout the quarter. My advice would be to study his practice problems hard to prepare for the exams. Overall, I’d say I will take the class with Surro again.

Surro basically went over slides that he created for each class. I felt that the examples he used on his notes were very easy in comparison to the problem sets and exams. The exams are super long for the set duration of time. I recommend to find a great TA. Definitely try to understand and how to do the problem sets. I would have done better in the course if I sacrificed the sufficient time necessary.

Professor Surro is the best professor to take a core Economics class with! He genuinely cares about learning and tries to show students how theoretical economics concept apply to the real world. He also gives out a lot of extra credit and it always willing to help. While most Economics class grades are based solely on exams, Surro encourages and awards participation, attendance and an effort to learn. He is also very open to feedback and does his level best to improve and help his students. Consider yourself lucky if you are able to get into one of his classes.

*** COVID-19 Review ***
Surro is hands down a solid professor. He explains the concepts of economics so well and genuinely makes it easier to understand. That being said, DO NOT underestimate how hard the exams are. He makes them challenging, but they are definitely manageable if you study and utilize all of the quizzes and other practice problems he assigns.
He is very fair with grading and gives you multiple opportunities to not have the exams totally destroy you. I didn't do great on the midterm, but that was my fault, and I got my crap together to do better on the final. Make sure you know all the formulas and understand the math behind the questions he's asking—it'll make the midterm much more manageable.

Highly recommend this class. Chris is an excellent professor who is genuinely passionate about teaching. All his assignments were very reasonable and clear, and he's really helpful during office horus too. This is an essay-based rather than exams-based class which is a nice change from the Econ prereqs. I wish he taught more electives, I would take every Econ class with Chris if I could!

I think that Chris did a decent job teaching Econ 2. Granted, it was online and set over 6 weeks rather than 10 which made the class fast-paced and boring. I feel that Chris didn't have enough time to go over each topic to its full extent because of how rushed the class was. His lectures were very boring, but watching on 1.5x speed made it go by a little faster. A lot of the class was confused on many topics, but Chris would provide problems he would go over after every lecture which covered the topics he taught in the associated lecture video. Chris' exams were not easy, the class average was 69% for the midterm and around 75% on the final. He does provide extra credit quizzes (which really don't add much, maybe a percent or two), as well as a discussion post assignment and data report assignment that were basically easy points to boost your grade. Exams were open note, but Chris made them difficult in that they were almost all application problems rather than definition type problems.

TAKE HIM. The best econ prof ive taken (apart from Olivia Osei, of course).

So good with the extra credit and the assignments are super cool and engaging! I actually learnt something about the world in this class which is not common for Econ courses.

*taken during covid; online course*

Surro was very helpful. He held multiple office hours and used Campuswire to answer questions. Good communication.

His exams were fair, but since the course was online, he made them application based rather some based on definitions (his words). No doubt if this class was in person it would’ve been easier to ace the exams. I didn’t do so hot on the midterm - average was C - but I got it together for the final. I did have to dedicate a lot of time to the class. I found it helpful to create a master study guide - handwrite them with different colors, it helps a lot!

Grade breakdown included: discussion posts, project, midterm, final. There was also extra credit.