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Randall Rojas
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ECON 106V Hands down, Rojas is the worst economics professor at UCLA. He communicates terribly with the TAs, his slides are filled with typos, and his lectures add no value to learning. This guy literally can care less about student learning. He reuses other professors' homework and lab assignments and he doesn't even take the time to proof read what he posts. More often than not, homework assignments are filled with typos because he copy-pastes assignments from different sources without looking at the problems to make sure that they make sense. My advice: don't go to class, buy a book that teaches investments. He didn't even choose a valuable textbook to use. He resorted to some free online textbook that he didn't even teach from; it was useless. It seems like teaching is just his side gig and he could careless about it.
ECON 106V Hands down, Rojas is the worst economics professor at UCLA. He communicates terribly with the TAs, his slides are filled with typos, and his lectures add no value to learning. This guy literally can care less about student learning. He reuses other professors' homework and lab assignments and he doesn't even take the time to proof read what he posts. More often than not, homework assignments are filled with typos because he copy-pastes assignments from different sources without looking at the problems to make sure that they make sense. My advice: don't go to class, buy a book that teaches investments. He didn't even choose a valuable textbook to use. He resorted to some free online textbook that he didn't even teach from; it was useless. It seems like teaching is just his side gig and he could careless about it.
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Took Econ 106V To keep it short and sweet, it is a very quantitative class. The only thing you'll be solving on midterms and finals is using formulas to arrive at your answers. It was a decently hard class, but engaging and practical enough to where I feel that the material is extremely worthwhile to learn anyways. Rojas is obviously intelligent. Perhaps too intelligent for his own good, because he tended to breeze through his PowerPoints very quickly. With that said, thank God that there are PowerPoints. His slides prepare you VERY well with regards to the material and to the tests. I just did those, the homework, and the online quizzes (not-graded). Ended up with an A+. tl;dr - If you don't mind math and want to have good investing knowledge, take this class. Don't treat it like an easy A. Good luck and God bless.
Took Econ 106V To keep it short and sweet, it is a very quantitative class. The only thing you'll be solving on midterms and finals is using formulas to arrive at your answers. It was a decently hard class, but engaging and practical enough to where I feel that the material is extremely worthwhile to learn anyways. Rojas is obviously intelligent. Perhaps too intelligent for his own good, because he tended to breeze through his PowerPoints very quickly. With that said, thank God that there are PowerPoints. His slides prepare you VERY well with regards to the material and to the tests. I just did those, the homework, and the online quizzes (not-graded). Ended up with an A+. tl;dr - If you don't mind math and want to have good investing knowledge, take this class. Don't treat it like an easy A. Good luck and God bless.
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ECON 1* Rojas is a very engaging teaching. I took Econ 1 at 9:30 in the morning so everyone around was very tired but throughout his lecture he pauses to make sure everyone understands. Rojas also is constantly asking questions for everyone to participate in the lecture. His class goes significantly slower than Sproul but unlike Sproul he gives homeworks that are factored into the grade. All of his tests so far have been 25 multiple choice so depending on who you are this could be good or bad. I definitely recommend for whoever takes this class to buy the book bundle from UCLA because I haven't seen a cheaper option. To buy the code on its own is $120 but the website offers the code and the physical book for $140.
ECON 1* Rojas is a very engaging teaching. I took Econ 1 at 9:30 in the morning so everyone around was very tired but throughout his lecture he pauses to make sure everyone understands. Rojas also is constantly asking questions for everyone to participate in the lecture. His class goes significantly slower than Sproul but unlike Sproul he gives homeworks that are factored into the grade. All of his tests so far have been 25 multiple choice so depending on who you are this could be good or bad. I definitely recommend for whoever takes this class to buy the book bundle from UCLA because I haven't seen a cheaper option. To buy the code on its own is $120 but the website offers the code and the physical book for $140.
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