My best Econ professor at ucla, i took econ 1,2,102,160 with him. He is amazing, perfect lecturer, very knowledgable and funny which makes the lecture interesting :) thank you professor

I have to say Keskinel is the worst ECON professor I have ever met since I came to UCLA.

The grading of this class was fair game: 25% Midterm 1, 25% Midterm 2 and 50% Final.

However, the horrible part came from the questions he gave in the exam. He liked those questions concerning trivial information which were merely not relevant to Economics. In all of these exams, he gave several multiple choices questions asking about specific years of certain historical events, like the first oil shock and the beginning of the Great Depression. The professor ought to give us the terms that would appear in the exam, while he did not mention these specific time at all.

Other than these trivial information, he also gave us questions based on the knowledge of ECON 102. The only source for these topics is his lecture notes because the textbook for Econ 2 does not cover the topic he mentioned.

Anyway, if you want to take his class, go to every lectures and prepare for the exam carefully.

I loved this guy. Keskinel is excited about the material and never seemed bound to some rigid "lesson plan". I mean his lectures were organized to a T, but he knows his subject and can seemingly talk for hours about it.
I really hope I get to take more classes with him.

If you're taking this class with him, know that he doesn't care much for the textbook, so be sure which chapters are going to be relevant to the course (and whether to spend time on them).
And really, GO to lecture. It's a bad class to miss lecture. His tests are based completely on what he says in lecture, right down to small historical references. And go to his office hours. He'll help you with anything (and right before the final, he had OHs. Wound up getting a lot of good ideas about what was about to be in the final, it HELPED).

He's a great teacher and he gave us a lot of supplemental material (articles, white papers, videos) that really solidified the econ concepts. (And more that a couple of final exam questions were based on the supplemental readings, so skim through them.)

Keskinel is worth taking. He'll make you love econ (if you didn't already).

BEST ECON PROFESSOR I HAVE TAKEN AT UCLA HANDSDOWN

He is seriously such a good econ professor. I guess everyone who thinks he is hard just never did the assigned text book reading.

His lectures ARE STRAIGHT FROM THE CHAPTER READING that he assigns for the week.

Honestly I just read the chapter he assigned for the week before I attended lecture && then when I went to lecture, it was like the legit same information and examples as the assigned textbook. But the library has the wrong textbook, so rent the correct textbook he assigns you on amazon---that's what I did and it was only $19 to rent for the quarter.

He is such a great professor and I wish he would teach more upperdivs---besides econ 102, and econ 160

I had him for econ 160 btw and I did well in the class!

Keskinel is a funny guy and his lectures aren't horribly boring to sit through, unlike a lot of other econ professors. That said, he's pretty disorganized in how he presents his material- no slides, and he'll often jump from whiteboard to whiteboard without explaining what's going on. Tests were reasonably fair but a little bit tricky. Overall, he's a very average professor- not one to avoid taking this class with, but not one I'd go out of my way to take again.

Keskinel's grading scheme is fairly straightforward:
Midterm 1 - 25%
Midterm 2 - 25%
Final - 50%

Both midterms and final exams have between 30-50 Multiple-Choice Questions and a few analytical questions.
His lectures are kinda disorganized and he often skips alot of material covering just the calculation/graph sections of the textbook. However going to lecture is both rewarding as well as important because not only is he funny and entertaining but alot of the things he says in class which might seem irrelevant are actually tested on in the Multiple-choice portion of his exams. That being said, I think reading the textbook and the lecture slides and solving all the questions at the end of each chapter are extremely crucial in doing well in the class. The analytical questions he asks are very similar to textbook questions and the multiple-choice are almost entirely from the textbook (case-studies are VERY important). Overall, would recommend the guy if youre willing to do a decent amount of self-study while also looking for an entertaining professor.

Keskinel is a goat, he will make sure you stay awake by knocking on the board and randomly referencing statistics that might be on exams.

No slides so attending class is a must, his midterms were 50 multiple choice and fair.

He really wants students to understand the concepts through a historical grounding so you will learn a lot of interesting things that aren't in the textbook.

He doesn't use slides, so he just talks. But he has a really thick accent, which makes it difficult to listen. My experience with the class wasn't the greatest. He doesn't require the textbook, but it helps because he does test the really small details he doesn't really go over during class. There's no homework, which could be a good or bad thing.

He tries but he's just plain bad.

He tries but he's just plain bad.