Professor Ohanian does not seem to care much for students in this class. He appears on Zoom once every two weeks just to repeat what he has already covered in the recorded lectures using another set of slides, saving minimal time for additional Office Hours questions. There is far too little practice questions in the MCQ format of the Midterms and Finals (only 4-5 questions a week that rarely asks about the same content as the test questions): the practice questions in the textbook are formatted completely differently and the practice midterms and finals have far too few questions compared to the real one (e.g. the practice finals had 31 questions while the real one has 76). I understand that they used the Mindtap app for practice MCQ questions in the past years but this year it was discontinued because it was too expensive. However, there is no replacement found for the practices on Mindtap and the exam questions continue to come from Mindtap.
Overall, because of the lack of well-organized practice, there is no good mechanism to assess how you are doing in this course and how well you understood the topics until it is too late- when you get bonked in the Finals. This just reinforces the sense that this course is poorly organized and the general feeling (this may be subjective) that the professor is teaching this course part-time and has little attention to spare for ECON 1 students.

This class consisted of weekly section prep assignments which were done in response to an article, two weekly 4-5 question multiple choice quizzes, and one midterm and the final, The curve for this class bumped my 92.3% up to a 95%. This class was asynchronous and the lectures were fairly straightforward. The econ dept is notorious for being inflexible but all of our due dates were extended by a week and four quizzes whose due dates a lot of people missed because of their dates being pushed back were reopened. My TA was Faith Ozturk and he did a phenomenal job of teaching every week, I would highly recommend him. Additionally although I know some students never purchased the Cenegage Mindtap textbook, our midterm questions were identical to the generated practice problems in it. I prepared for my final by doing three hundred of the practice problems and felt much better about it. I’d additionally recommend going to your TA discussion in person every week as the rest of the course is asynchronous. They also offered midterm and final review sessions. I never interacted with professor ohanian this entire course, so I’m not sure what to say about him. In summary, to do well buy the online textbook and use the practice test feature, and go to your TAs because they grade everything.

I never really attended lectures, but rather just read the textbook in the course because I felt that lectures were simply rehashing the required readings. The workload itself is quite easy, and the material is pretty straightforward so it wasn't too difficult to self-study this entire class.

I did not like this class. The class was asynchronous, and the professor just read off of slides based on the textbook. There were quizzes on each chapters, which were easy. But, all of the grading for written assignments was done by your TA. I did not like the section prep assignments because there was definitely more than one answer to the questions, but the rubric was strict that there was only one "right answer." I thought those assignments were graded too strictly and often lost points on those. A lot of the written answers were either full points or 0 points, so it hurts your grade a ton. You would probably have to go to a TA's office hours every week just to make sure you get the right answer. Same for the midterm and final. Some of the questions were barely covered, and I did all of the Mindtap assignments too. Maybe I'm just not good at econ, but the real midterm and final was harder than the assignments and practice exams. Plus, the class was curved down, which was even worse. 3% was added to your grade, but your grade was curved down. So if you had a raw score of 89, then your total grade was a 92. But, scores between 90-92 would be a B+, so there was no difference anyways. Professor Ohanian was nice and explained well during the live sessions and the TAs worked hard in the discussions and review sessions, so I will give credit to that. But, this class was a pain for me and solidified that I cannot be an econ major.

This class was just generally a pretty mediocre asynchronous class. The professor essentially just reads off his slides, which are directly from the textbook content, so I found just reading the textbook on my own to be enough to learn the material. The tests weren't super hard if you put time into studying beforehand - I would recommend buying access to the textbook website if you can afford it, as it has a lot of good study material on there, and some test questions were almost the same as or identical to those questions. However, the hardest part of the class was the curve at the end. He didn't say anything about a curve the entire quarter, and then at like week 10 chose to tell us that he would be curving the class down. I got a 95%, which ended up being the cutoff for an A. Overall, it wasn't great but wasn't horrible - just know to study for the tests, and anticipate a curve at the end.

This class was honestly mad easy. Lectures were clear and so was the textbook. Barely any work due, grade consisted of really easy quizzes and exams as well as weekly assignments. These assignments as well as the free response questions on exams had pretty strict word-for-word rubrics though, and I felt that they make you play a guessing game for what the professor wants you to answer.

This class was easy for me up until the final. Grade is comprised of a midterm, a final, and weekly quizzes and small assignments. I opted not to blow $120 on the Mindtap thing and did well on the midterm, but the final really killed my grade. Was far harder than the practice exam he gave us which I only missed a couple questions on. Besides that, quizzes and section prep assignments were fairly straightforward, although I never attended my TA section live. Ohanian seems nice enough, but his recorded lectures were just slides he got from the textbook company that he read off of, and didn't add anything to my understanding of the material, so essentially only used the textbook to study. An incredibly mediocre experience all around.

Very easy class, he follows a strict grading scheme and ended up curving my grade down so be aware of that. I will say that Ohanian really does not care about any of his students for this class and will not put in any effort to help out. Discussions are mandatory.

DO NOT take this class online asynchronous. I thought that it'd be easy but it's clear that Ohanian puts little to no effort into the asynchronous courses. I'll admit some fault on my part since I definitely let myself get behind on the course work, but I still would've liked to see at least some effort put in by the department. Midterm and Final were surprisingly tough, even though they were both online. Definitely wouldn't take again.

Honestly, the other review from 2023 explains this class perfectly. You really have to self-teach yourself and professor Lee doesn't interact much with his students. The hw practice questions were way different than the actual test questions. I had the feeling that given the tests were online, they made the test hard to finish on purpose. With both the midterm and final, the questions were not like our practice questions and the time given was simply not enough. I didn't even get the chance to review my answers with how little time was given and I tanked the final. The class is fine, but I think its probably better to take a class that's not asynchronous if you want to take econ 1.