Straightforward lectures and easy exams and grading policy. All exams are multiple choices, so it should be manageable. 25 questions for each midterm and 70 questions for the final. Overall, Prof. Rojas is a great professor who is really passionate about teaching.

You are going to have to take this class no matter what, but for your own sake try another professor. He's not a bad guy or anything, he seemed nice, but his lectures take place in a mysterious land unbound by normal laws of time and space. He reads off of the slides, which are in turn taken from the textbook. It is painfully hard to focus, and I've never felt stupider doing his exams. Grades are determined by two short midterms and a longer final, all of them multiple choice. The two midterms were easy my year, so they made the final much harder. They told us that very plainly in discussion. They were right. It sucked.

I came out of the class with no self esteem and no zest for life. Not the Professor's fault, again, as he didn't really make any impact on the class, but because I wasn't as smart as I thought I was. Be careful and take care of yourself in this class.

This class is very straightforward and realistically, he just reads directly off his lecture slides which he posts anyways. If you can download mindtap and review from that, you’re set since the practice tests in that program most closely resemble his practice tests.

I felt sad that I didn't go to lectures as often as I should've and didn't work as hard as I should've because this course is REALLY useful.

Rojas was a decent professor. I thought his lectures were pretty dry, but that also might just be the class material. The grading of the class consists entirely of the exams, which is fairly stressful as their is no rewarding for the homework done. The midterms are pretty easily and the final is really hard as everyone in Bruinwalk has already said. My advice would be just to focus on what he says in terms of the content the exam focuses on and do not believe the final will be the same level of difficulty as the exam. I felt like utilizing the course materials, lecture, and the professor and TA availability allowed me to do well and didn't find any huge barriers to getting a good grade in this class.

Rojas is a very fair professor, I find myself not going to lectures as much because everything was off his slides. However, if you did not fully understand a concept, it is very crucial to go to his office hours or the TA's office hours so that you can understand it to face the tricky questions they put on the midterms and final. For the midterms, the questions are straightfoward. However, since they are straightfoward, some students may overlook the wording of the questions and think its asking for something else when it's not. Make sure to do good on the midterms because the final will be a wakeup call, the final average was a 72 percent and i got a D on it. The main reason I ended up with a C- and will have to waste my repeat course for my econ major on a supposed to be easy pre-req. For this class, Some students may find it very easy to understand the material and do well on the test( probably because they took AP econ in high school) but coming from a working class environment where my high school didn't have AP econ and had regular econ that was not comprehensive at all , I was easily misguided on finding the proper solutions for questions asked on the tests . Also, make sure to spend a good amount of time studying for this class if you do bad on the first midterm, just read over the chapters in the textbook to get a better understanding and do practice problems. If you can get previous midterms, that'll help. Do what you're supposed to do, take responsibility, and you'll accomplish what you'll set out to accomplish. Good luck.

Overall, it's an okay or good-adjacent class. It's microeconomics which isn't difficult math-wise. If you only read the Chapter Overviews of the readings, you will do okay-alright in this class. If you do the practice problems/discussion problems that Professor Rojas and your TA provide, you will probably do well in this class. I can't really say how good of a professor Rojas is because we relied on pre-recorded lectures from another professor for like half the course (due to the transition to online learning), but I think he is a good professor.

Rojas is actually not bad as a professor, he can just be a little dry sometimes, but that's just the nature of the material we're learning. He also hand writes notes legibly in class and gives very short problem sets and past exams that are pretty good practice. His midterms apparently were too hard, as they had medians around 75%, so he tried to make the final easier. But honestly, the final was a challenging but fair extension of the material we had learned up to that point (For reference, I got 100% on the final, not sure if the test itself was curved or not, but the mean was still below an 80%). It is very evident that Rojas cares about his students and wants them to learn, as he responds very quickly to questions after class and is overall very patient about answering questions. I definitely would recommend him.

Although the professor is fairly helpful, I found the entire experience overall to not be the best. The exams were fairly difficult and there is no homework or other assignments or even attendance to push your grade up a little. I went to all the lectures but definitely needed to exert a little more effort in going over my notes and understanding the practice examples online. Not a terrible class, but not exactly a great introduction to my major.

Professor Rojas is an extremely knowledgeable and kind professor, but sometimes the lecture content would become extremely dry, and this was exacerbated by the fact that lecture had a large class size, was after lunch and in an extremely hot room (maintenance had been called many times but nothing changed over the entire quarter), making it difficult to focus and keep up. Moreover, the pace of the lecture was quite fast, and if you fell behind, it was almost impossible to catch up. My biggest issue was the disparity between the practice exams posted to CCLE and the actual exams, which were far more difficult, mostly because of the unreasonable time constraint (more so on the midterms, final had sufficient time for most people). Lastly, the textbook is terrible in terms of explaining concepts, and was only useful for the homework questions. However, some strengths of the class are the amount of real-world based problems professor Rojas solved in class, and how he introduced us to the use of statistical modelling in R.