ECON 4430

This class involves zero math. It's all conceptual and the concepts are, for the most part, pretty intuitive. Go to the lectures, look over your notes the night before the exam, get an A. Shobe is a nice guy too.

Good class, enthusiastic professor.

Shobe is absurdly demonstrative, disorganized, enrgetic, and, most of all, nice. He's a fair guy who cares more about you taking something away from the class than memorizing useless info. This is a course you want to take. And he's the guy you want to take it with. And if that's not good enough, just look at the grade distribution.

Shobe is an engaging lecturer and you can tell he loves to teach. When it comes to teaching, Shobe is one of the stronger professors in the Econ dept. This class isn't as easy as many of the reviews say. Also, you don't need to read all the assigned readings -- just read the more impt ones, which are emphasized in class.

Don't take this class based on the grade distribution that is shown. It just isn't true.

Shobe is a great professor, and you can tell he really cares about environmental econ policy. Class isn't tough, just do the readings. Rewarding stuff.

I had high expectations for this class, but it fell a little bit flat in the end. Not a bad class, but still a little disappointing. Lecture primarily deals with stuff that's in the readings, which are relatively unnecessary except for the ones that he really harps on.

Tests are pretty straightforward and graded easily, paper was very toughly graded (who knows, he must've hated my topic) but still not too bad of a grade in the end. Extra credit exists for showing up, but that's pretty disorganized and varies from semester to semester.

Bottom line, Shobe is a nice guy who really cares about his lectures, but he is scattered brained and a reallllyyyy slow grader. Probably worth taking, but not mind-blowing by any stretch.

Great lecturer. Very passionate about the topic and has very relevant experience. It's important to do the readings for the exams but he does cover them to a lower level in class. A couple exams and a couple short papers. Overall highly recommended, one of the best professors at UVA.

Shobe's a pretty cool lecturer. I really enjoyed what he taught, and he really does seem to know the subject well. I think the class is definitely worth taking! Professor Shobe is also one of the nicest teachers at UVA. You really don't find many cut from this high-quality cloth here.

The best class!!!