Professor Rojas is a really great lecturer. Although it was online and that sucked, his explanations were clear and thorough and I got an A- putting in pretty minimal effort.

Class is not hard nor easy, but he taught all material without any order. It was very difficult to review the materials without any orderness.

I took this course online. I am genuinely surprised about his low rating. He seemed very sweet and my friends and I all liked him too. Econ 1 with him was easy, especially if you are coming in with some Econ knowledge. He takes time to explain every concept and terms which makes it easier for us to follow and understand. He made sure he answered all our questions too. The only negative thing about his course is how expensive the required online textbook (cengage) is. I remember it charged me about $160 on bruinbill, but it was a very helpful textbook/website. Even though I have not taken the final yet, the two midterms were completely doable if you made sure to know and understand the content. The weekly homeworks took like an hour to complete at most and they were all very good practice for the exams. Take his Econ 1 if you can!

This was overall a very tough but useful class. This class builds off of the material we learned from 103 so it is very important to have strong R skills as you will be doing group projects using R. The group projects were tedious but are mostly graded based on completion. Since this was the first quarter having exams in person, we didn't have to code on exams but instead they're mostly conceptual, some calculations, and some R code interpretations. Overall a pretty good class and prof rojas is very helpful and open to answering questions.

Professor Rojas explains concepts very clearly and makes sure to answer all of his students' questions in class, even if it takes a while. Because of this, I think he's a pretty great instructor! However, I do feel like he spent waaay too much time explaining super simple concepts and waaay too little time explaining some of the more difficult concepts. There is very little work required for the class, but if you want to have a strong understanding of everything I would recommend doing all the chapter readings. For the most part, the exams are straightforward (they're all multiple choice), but the second midterm was fairly challenging in my opinion. The overall class structure is a bit boring, but the content itself is actually pretty interesting if you're someone who really likes connecting intuitive ideas to the real world. Overall, I definitely don't regret taking Econ 1 w/Rojas!

This is really the hardest class in the econ department. Imagine Econ 103 x 10 for level of difficulty. Professor Rojas is very inspiring and engaging, although the materials are hard and he’s a strict professor, he still managed to make me like the class way more than I thought I would. The key to do well in this class for me was practicing coding and understanding the theory enough to be able to code and understand the output. Professor Rojas expects you to know a lot, so if you didn’t take econ 103 with him, let him know so he can provide some sort of R workshop (which he did for us) or his lab notes from 103 so you can catch up. Otherwise I recommend learning R using datacamp or something like that to get ahead. Always take advantage of his office hours because he’s very patient, and he truly wants his students to succeed. I asked a lot of stupid questions but he would try a lot of different ways to explain. The skill set I learned from his class is honestly the most useful out of all the econ classes i’ve taken due to the coding aspect.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU HAVE NOT STUDIED ECONOMICS BEFORE. Frankly, there is no way you could survive. Its not because of Professor Rojas, but the fast paced nature of the quarter system. You learn the fundamental concepts of economics within a week or two, stuff that is generally taught over the course of a year in high school.
If you have taken economics before however, this course is not too bad. The first 4 weeks of material is extremely easy (concepts like supply and demand, opportunity cost, etc.), the next 4 slightly harder (trade, tax, etc.), and the last 2 are tough (competitive markets, calculating costs). Professor Rojas is overall a friendly person and a decent lecturer. He basically reads off his slides the entire time but since they're fairly detailed and self-explanatory, I didn't see much of an issue with that. He's always willing to stop and help students understand concepts better if they don't get it. I would strongly recommend taking this class online if possible. Mine was entirely online and it really helped a lot The grading scheme is a little tough with :

Homework - 15%
Midterm 1 - 20%
Midterm 2 - 20%
Final - 45%

So your grade pretty much depends on your final. Homework is an easy 100 as all of the answers are on quizlet, and you can use a checking feature on your assignment to verify if your answers are correct.

Discussions were optional, and went more in depth on how to calculate or find certain values based on graphs or tables which is generally what the format of the tests are, so I would recommend attending it. My TA, Palleja, was great. He recorded discussion sections at the beginning of the week and then posted them on Canvas, so I never had to physically attend a discussion.

Overall, not a bad class. If you don't have to take it, I would avoid it, but if you are an Econ major, this should be an easy class for you.

I really liked Professor Rojas. He was very clear and there was not much homework. I took this class on Zoom and still I felt like it was a pretty engaging class.

this class was ok. i took ap macro in high school so this was just a review for me. the lectures were BORING so i never paid attention and just read the textbook instead which was way better. all the weekly homeworks/midterms/final were on mindtap (online but i think that was only for this quarter)

This was a pretty easy intro to economics class. The course material is very similar to AP Microeconomics if you have taken that before. Rojas was an organized lecturer and really chill professor. All of his slides consisted of material straight from the online book that we used. Class was very straightforward, and homework assignments were fairly easy. The two midterms and final were all multiple choice and were very similar to the homework and practice problems. Exams were also open note and taken online. If the class does poorly on exams, Rojas will curve upwards, but I am pretty sure that everyone did pretty well on all of the exams during this quarter.

Discussion sections were not that useful to me, but they were helpful if you had a question or struggled on a topic. I only went to my discussion a few times, but TA Dom explained everything with clarity, and I recommend him.