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.

I feel like I got totally fucked with the grading scheme this quarter so take this with a grain of salt. Dr. Rojas is a decent lecturer but the grading scheme was very unreasonable IMO. Instead of having HW as part of the final grade like in the past, it was 100% exams (25% midterm 1, 25% 2, 50% final). This was frustrating as hell because just a few mistakes on the exams could totally screw you over and there’s literally no other way to cushion your grade, no HW or extra credit opportunities. Also a lot of my mistakes were a result of Dr. Rojas's extremely poor wording (sometimes it was blatantly wrong but he didn't remove it from the exam). I only scraped by with a B because he curved it VERY generously at the end, I was boosted 3 whole percent.

Rojas is pretty dull and not captivating and hard to stay awake during his classes but it's not hard to understand the material itself and the weekly homework questions help so make sure to remember to do them. Rojas just reads of his slides in class so attendance is not super necessary just don't fall behind and go to your discussions.

I like this class very much. Learned a lot of valuable economic concepts, which were explained by Prof very clearly. My TA was super helpful as well, that you can always ask for clarifications during sections or office hours. The first two exams were relatively easy, compared to the final. However, as long as you attend lectures and review the slides a little bit, you will definitely get an A out of this class!

The midterms weren't bad at all if you do the questions on Mindtap. The homework's also aren't hard and if you review the homework's you will be prepared for the midterms. The final was harder, but was manageable. I didn't take econ classes in high school and was totally fine. You also don't really need to attend lectures because the slides posted or recordings have everything you need to know. Professor Rojas is a good lecturer and doesn't talk about things you don't need to know.

I had taken AP microeconomics over the summer before this, so the content of the class was nothing new & so my review may not be the best representation of the class. I found the class itself to be pretty slow, and his voice is literally way too calming, so I would end up spacing out every class. By Week 3, I ended up just watching his recording at like 1.5x speed or going on the zoom, along with the majority of the class haha.

I think the first two midterms were pretty fair. He covered all the topics tested and gave practice exams that had many similarly modeled problems as the actual exams. The final was definitely harder than the midterms, but it was still doable. I do think that if you have no background in microeconomics, this class might be kind of difficult, but still manageable especially with the help of the MindTap textbook and practice questions, which he requires you to get anyways to do the homework. One thing to note is that he said he would curve the class, but he ended up not curving probably because the class average was already a B. Overall, he's okay and you'll be fine as long as you do well on the exams.

Grading Scheme: 20% Midterm 1, 20% Midterm 2, 15% HW, 45% Final