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.

easiest class i have ever taken. since like preschool. but we never really got to see the professor. we just watched lectures that another professor made. so kinda weird

Tests were easy online with open notes, but I can imagine in person that they would be more difficult. I don't think he transitioned online well and I was often confused by what needed to be done week to week because he had his own slides and lectures, another professor's slides and lectures, and a textbook Chapter. It seemed like information overload every week. There is no week to week homework, just stay on top of all the readings. Grade based all on two midterms (25% each) and one final (50%). Kind of stressful in the end, but the open note policy for online class was nice. The practice problems on the Cengage book you have to buy are the best way to study.

I only attended the first lecture. After that, I mainly relied on reading the textbook and taking notes to learn and understand the material. His lectures are fine, but they are pretty much a summarized version of what the textbook offers. Because of this, it could be a lot more helpful to go through the textbook yourself rather than relying on a watered-down summary. Test questions are usually not memory-based and require you to understand the material and be able to apply it. Homework questions were quite similar to test questions, so you should definitely make sure you understand those and consult your TA if you have any questions.

I took this during Covid Times. Although I didn't learn a whole ton, I thought this class was extremely easy to do well in. Lectures are pointless by the way.

Rojas always gives fair exams and will create more office hours if you need extra help. Econ 41 is a fairly tough class in general, but he makes it easier than other professors. I would recommend taking it with Rojas.

He didn't teach that well and just basically read off the slides. But, he went through the material for the chapter, so it was fine. The tests were unclear many times and tested concepts that we didn't really cover or at least not in any real depth. Much of the homework didn't compare to the tests. He also didn't conduct the final well since the software glitched halfway through and he gave us an extra 15 mins even though it was down for a lot longer. There wasn't any real workload though, just the homework due every Friday which I think you could check up to three times. Overall, he's not terrible if you need to take the class, but he's not amazing either.