ECON 3010

This is hands down the hardest class I've taken at UVA (harder than Calculus II). Your grade is made up two midterms (20% each), problem sets (10%), Zoom poll questions (9%), the final course evaluation (1%) and a final exam (40%). Prof. Johnson is a terrible lecturer that struggles to explain several important concepts and rarely provides clear answers to the questions students ask him. His slides are basically graphs and large chunks of text taken from the textbook. Problem sets are fair, but some questions are unecessarily hard and may take you a very long time to complete. Exam questions are either fair or extremely challenging, which causes the exam averages to range from the mid 60s to the low 70s. Having to get a C+ in this class in order to declare the major is crazy, especially since Johnson might end up not even curving the class if he "deems that people have done well enough". DO NOT take this class unless you absolutely have to, and if you do, try taking it with Kloosterman or Santugini. #tCFfall2021

William Johnson is not the guy to take this class with. He is very old, his voice honestly hurts to listen to, and he is a very boring lecturer. The tests are difficult, and weigh 80% of your grade. He gave a very unclear answer for curves and essentially it is not curved to the best of my knowledge. His policy is if everyone does well, he'll give everyone good grades. if everyone does bad, he'll give everyone low grades. Multiple students had to tell him we need the textbook answers from the back for more practice and we just got them right before our 2nd midterm with a month left in the term. Marc Santugini is quite frankly a much better teacher than this guy and William Johnson should retire in my opinion to be honest. He is not a good teacher of this course and the syllabus grading structure needs to be revised.

Thank u, next

He was not friendly Seemed like he didn't want his students to succeed Very dry material Tests were random Basically had to self teach

Really nice guy who means well, gives a lot of pull with the homeworks being based on completion and clicker questions being 10 percent of your grade, but the exams are nothing like the problem sets and the slides aren't really helpful outside of class. The textbook is a good resource, but also any practice that you get in the textbook won't do much to prepare you for how difficult the exams will be.

There used to be more reviews and a GPA distribution for this class but those seem to have disappeared for some reason. Johnson goes through his slides pretty slowly so lectures are easy to follow. Tests are a lot easier than the homeworks and they're curved a lot.

Yo this guy so boring it hurts. If you have the determination to stay focused and pay attention in class, you're golden. If not, hope and pray for a good TA who can teach the material to you. The tests aren't too bad if you study for them and don't fall for the trick questions. Overall, Johnson is an eh lecturer (and can also be a bit condescending), but the class isn't too bad