Professor
Meliha Bulu-Taciroglu
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Winter 2020 - The lectures are pretty hard to pay attention to. They can be very meandering and hard to follow. The good news is that the discussions cover all the content you need to know and she is *super* helpful in office hours. - The class itself isn't too bad, it's basically a ton of formulas and algebra problems. Had a sort of 8th grade vibe to it. The tests are fair. There's weekly current events that can get annoying but are easy and sometimes interesting. - The biggest complaint I have with the grading is the opacity. I ended up with a B+ in the class, which slightly surprised me since I thought I did well on the final, so I emailed her asking if I could see what I missed on the final. She responded two weeks later, and she was very nice about it and agreed to set up a zoom call to talk to me - which I felt was very generous. I knew I was ambitious in what I was asking, so I was a little surprised that she accepted. Unfortunately, she never showed. I sat and waited on the zoom call for 30 min at the time she choose. I don't care if you don't respond to emails but if you make a commitment to talk to someone at a certain time you either a) let the other person know you're not coming or b) honor it. I felt it was disrespectful.
Winter 2020 - The lectures are pretty hard to pay attention to. They can be very meandering and hard to follow. The good news is that the discussions cover all the content you need to know and she is *super* helpful in office hours. - The class itself isn't too bad, it's basically a ton of formulas and algebra problems. Had a sort of 8th grade vibe to it. The tests are fair. There's weekly current events that can get annoying but are easy and sometimes interesting. - The biggest complaint I have with the grading is the opacity. I ended up with a B+ in the class, which slightly surprised me since I thought I did well on the final, so I emailed her asking if I could see what I missed on the final. She responded two weeks later, and she was very nice about it and agreed to set up a zoom call to talk to me - which I felt was very generous. I knew I was ambitious in what I was asking, so I was a little surprised that she accepted. Unfortunately, she never showed. I sat and waited on the zoom call for 30 min at the time she choose. I don't care if you don't respond to emails but if you make a commitment to talk to someone at a certain time you either a) let the other person know you're not coming or b) honor it. I felt it was disrespectful.
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Summer 2017 - Environmental economics has to be the one higher elective that will help your GPA in the Econ major. The professor always explained rather well in lectures and her exams were always a step harder than her homework assignments. You will struggle a bit to get the hang of the class and many of the terms from Econ 11 and Econ 41 will pop-up here and there. There is nothing harsh about the class, but you need to make sure that your mathematics and economic theory are at least up-to-date. Take the class and ask questions if you ever need advice on the weekly assignments since you can always get together with a group of people and attack the questions. The group assignment is super easy--I think 1 page about a topic of your choice--and will not take up too much of your time. The professor is hard to get a hold of because of her extremely tight schedule, but you should navigate around that fact, and I am sure you will get to speak to her at some point in the quarter.
Summer 2017 - Environmental economics has to be the one higher elective that will help your GPA in the Econ major. The professor always explained rather well in lectures and her exams were always a step harder than her homework assignments. You will struggle a bit to get the hang of the class and many of the terms from Econ 11 and Econ 41 will pop-up here and there. There is nothing harsh about the class, but you need to make sure that your mathematics and economic theory are at least up-to-date. Take the class and ask questions if you ever need advice on the weekly assignments since you can always get together with a group of people and attack the questions. The group assignment is super easy--I think 1 page about a topic of your choice--and will not take up too much of your time. The professor is hard to get a hold of because of her extremely tight schedule, but you should navigate around that fact, and I am sure you will get to speak to her at some point in the quarter.
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