Professor Rojas is a solid instructor that has straightforward slides and a free online textbook that has plenty of practice and preparation for the tests. There's two midterms that are each 20% of your grade, a final that's 45% of your grade, and the mostly weekly homework that are easy to get 100 on are 15% of your grade. He also provides practice midterms that have questions similar to the actual midterms. I took AP Microeconomics a few months before taking this class so it was not that difficult, but the people I know that didn't take AP Micro still were able to do well as long as they studied and looked over the practice midterms. Also, the lectures are hybrid and most people end up not going to lectures in-person as it's not really necessary as you get the same information by attending on Zoom or watching the recorded lectures. I will note that if you attend the Zoom lectures, be sure to log in on-time as he does not see people in the waiting room, so you won't be let in if you are late online. Also, the TA sections are optional, which is nice, and they are only necessary if you are confused with the material or want to look over a midterm you took. Overall, a fairly easy, strait-forward intro class.

Super easy class. The professor is super good. Tests are easy as long as you do practice problems.

professor rojas does his best to teach ECON 1; however, this class is hard asf for no reason!!! the important thing to note: your grade is solely based on two midterms + a final * though, the distribution you can choose :-) your TAs try to be as helpful as they can~ it's giving AP econ exam LOL

If you’re taking Econ 1, definitely take it with another professor. I came out of every lecture confused, but if I went over the lecture slides on my own it was much easier. He makes everything way more confusing than it has to be and his class is fully based on two midterms and a final, which you need to be able to be good at answering weird questions, not just understanding the material. The class average for the midterms and the final ranged from a C- to a C+.
Thankfully, he curved it a bit at the end because a lot of people didn’t do too well. I feel like I understood most, if not all of the material that was taught in the class, but the professor made the class way more complicated than it had to be.

I personally did not find the class to be that difficult or time consuming, just somewhat annoying. Anyway, some notes:
- The class is 100% exams for your grade: 25% x 2 midterms, and 50% final, which is pretty brutal. What makes it worse is all exams are completely multiple choice, and every single question you missed on the midterm was 1% of your grade lost (25 questions on midterms), and final a little less (70 questions).
- Exam questions were mostly pretty straightforward, though just a time crunch. Each exam did have a more than a couple curveballs that were a little weird though, and especially with the midterms, I felt like some questions were almost repeated, so you could have double jeopardy if you forgot one concept.
- The professor held lectures in-person with a zoom stream, but did not record them. However, he posted slides, which I found to be useful and was my primary study tool. Memorize how to identify the areas on the Price-Quantity graph, how the supply/demand curves move, how ceilings/floors/taxes/tariifs/whatever move the Price and Quantity of a product, as well as the 10 or so formulas that come up throughout the course, like midpoint price elasticity of demand, and you're good for most of the exam questions.
- As part of the course, there's an inclusive access "homework" (Mindtap) that costs like $75 where the professor assigns optional homework. However, THEY ARE NOT REALLY OPTIONAL! Some questions on the exams were copy-pasted directly from Mindtap, including some more tricky ones, and they generally were in the style of the exam questions. It was pretty clear that some people did not since in the groupme, people were trying to cause a riot over a question that was directly ripped from the homework - don't be like them and just get the points at the start. Mindtap and the previous exams that the professor posted for the midterms were my study tools for the exams.
- The professor stated that he will not downcurve, but will only curve the class upward to match the average at 80% if the average is below that. For this class, the overall average was around 75%, and everyone had around 5% added to their grade before translating to letter grades.

The professor essentially just reads off slides which are generally not that helpful in regard to the exams. Additionally, your entire grade is comprised of 3 exams - two midterms and a final. The practice exams he gives are significantly easier than the actual exams & thus are fairly useless for practice. Further, the class average for the final was 74.4%. The only possible way this could be fair is if a significant curve was added to each exam.

A typical economic class you would expect. 100% of the grading scheme is on the exam: 25-25-50 (two midterms and one final). Prof. Rojas was a good lecturer, in my opinion, but he was sometimes too slow. He did not finish the slides on the last chapter in my quarter, so you can tell that he was SUPER slow. But anyway, the exams were reasonable if you practice on MindTap and the practice exams. MindTap was such a clutch, so use that for the review. I have never taken AP Economics, but the topics were not too challenging to understand. I found the TA office hours extremely helpful, so ask them! After hearing all the bad things about econ classes, this was actually not a bad experience.

Though I did end up receiving an A+ in the class, Rojas' Econ 1 is not exactly interesting. Lectures are kind of mundane, as he reads off the slides basically. I took AP Macro, which correlates to Econ 2, back in high school so I found some of the concepts covered in class very easy to comprehend, which might not be the case for others. There wasn't any work you had to turn in. You basically just had to make sure you fully grasped the materials and do well on the two midterms (25% each) and the final (50%). Rojas does curve if the class average is low. I ended up with A- actually but the curve brought me up to an A+.

Didn't go to a single lecture or discussion and got A+. He posts lectures and slides. Weekly practice problems that you don't have to do because they are not counted for a grade (he doesn't like giving homework grades) and I didn't do a single problem set and was 100% fine. USE MINDTAP!!!!!! It is much more efficient than going to class in my opinion. I got amazing scores on all exams from ONLY STUDYING BY USING MINDTAP. Class is 25% Midterm 1, 25% Midterm 2, and 50% Final. Each midterm is 25 questions. Midterm 1 was EXTREMELY easy, mean score was 21/25, I got 100% and only started learning the content a couple days before. Midterm 2 was slightly more difficult, but scores were just as good, with a mean score of 20/25. Final was 70 questions and a little rough, mean score 50.68/70, I got 62.2/70. He curved the overall class grade because our average was 77% (he won't curve if the overall class grade is a B or above), not sure how much he curved, but my grade went from 92% to A+. Recommend him fs

The Professor just reads of the slides, the practice exams look nothing like the actual exam. Honestly he made me hate economics, he made no sense of it. This quarter he made our entire grade based on exams, which for people that are not good at exam taking does not help, the concepts make sense but he words the questions very poorly. Overall a very bad professor.