If you take this class asynchronously, you are really on your own. The lecture videos are quite literally useless in terms of adding value to the slides. The saving grace for this class is that the content is extremely basic and easy to understand. Just by looking over the slides and going to section should be enough to really understand the content. The exams are pretty straightforward and neither particularly easy nor difficult. Overall, this class is pretty lame (as expected from an asynchronous class) but is still pretty easy to get an A in. He does curve though, so shoot for a 94+ to be safe.

This class was asynchronous for me. It was pretty easy as well. We just had to watch one lecture per week and do a weekly quiz that was 4-5 questions. However, I recommend listening and actually understanding the content, as the midterm is pretty faced past and semi-difficult. Overall, I recommend this class!

This class is so incredibly easy, I probably put maybe 3 hours a week total into this class. and Professor Ohanian was solid. His lectures are pretty straightforward and he does a pretty good job explaining the concepts, but the concepts themselves were very elementary. The textbook for this class also does a great job explaining the concepts. The midterm and final are also not very hard. My TA Maria Guerrero was absolutely fantastic and I highly recommend taking this class with her if you can. All in all, I am very glad I took this class with Ohanian

Very easy class, he follows a strict grading scheme and ended up curving my grade down so be aware of that. I will say that Ohanian really does not care about any of his students for this class and will not put in any effort to help out. Discussions are mandatory.

DO NOT take this class online asynchronous. I thought that it'd be easy but it's clear that Ohanian puts little to no effort into the asynchronous courses. I'll admit some fault on my part since I definitely let myself get behind on the course work, but I still would've liked to see at least some effort put in by the department. Midterm and Final were surprisingly tough, even though they were both online. Definitely wouldn't take again.

Honestly, the other review from 2023 explains this class perfectly. You really have to self-teach yourself and professor Lee doesn't interact much with his students. The hw practice questions were way different than the actual test questions. I had the feeling that given the tests were online, they made the test hard to finish on purpose. With both the midterm and final, the questions were not like our practice questions and the time given was simply not enough. I didn't even get the chance to review my answers with how little time was given and I tanked the final. The class is fine, but I think its probably better to take a class that's not asynchronous if you want to take econ 1.

This was a pretty easy class overall but hard to not slack in. I took it when it was asynchronous and the only grades we were getting each week were from attending the TA sessions and from a weekly quiz on the material that was 4-5 questions long. Grades were composed of 10% TA attendance, 15% quizzes, 25% midterm, and 50% for the final. Both of the exams were online and on canvas. This year over 80% of the class ended with above a B so there wasn’t a curve. The professor posts videos of his lectures but he just reads off the slides and he encouraged us to read the textbook along with the slides. The quizzes and practice exams were extremely easier than the midterm and final so they weren’t super helpful to study. A lot of the past reviews highly recommend purchasing MindTap but this year he suggested we didn’t get it because they couldn’t get a reasonable price for it. Overall, this was a very manageable but forgettable class.

The class was pretty easy and straightforward. I took it during COVID and all the lectures were recorded and asynchronous.

Took this class asynchronously, and my overall impression of this course was that the content was straightforward. Professor Ohanian has a wonderful personality, and I found his lectures to be helpful, even if they are based on the textbook reading. Purchasing the MindTap Mankiw online access is a must, as both the midterm and the final questions are very similar to the ones generated by the practice tests from MindTap. To be successful in this course, I would suggest doing all of the textbook readings, grinding through MindTap problems frequently, and attending the TA section. Weekly quizzes should be easy if you did the readings, attended/watched the lectures, and attended the TA section. For the weekly writing assignments, I would suggest trying to connect concepts from the chapter into the article, and answering each part of the question as detailed as possible without being too wordy. I had Pat Leepipatpiboon as my TA, and she was very knowledgeable and helpful with my questions. Overall solid experience, and while some of the content is heavier, this is nowhere near what people would consider a "weeder" class. The grading distribution for this quarter was about a B curve, with an A- being 90.6-93.1% and an A being 93.2-95.5% (A+ above 95.5).

ECON 1 with Ohanian was not particularly hard or easy nor interesting or boring. It was overall just a really mid class. During Fall 2021 it was a completely asynchronous class and relied on videos for instruction so I didn't really get a feel for Ohanian as a person. For the midterm, the questions went along the material taught in class and on discussion worksheets, but there were so many questions and a lot of us didn't get through to answering all of the questions in time. The final was better and a lot easier than the midterm. I personally didn't pay for Mindtap but some of my friends said that that was helpful for both the midterm and the final. Overall it was just a mid class and I got through with an A-.